When you want to emphasis something, one way to do this in English, and in a number of other languages, is to repeat the word. Sometimes the repeated word is altered, often to make a better rhyme. Sometimes the second word is one with a similar meaning to the first one and which rhymes with it. There may be another linguistic term for this phenomenon, but for now I’m calling it word doubling.<\/p>\n
Here are some examples:<\/p>\n
English<\/strong> Irish<\/strong> Japanese<\/strong> Mandarin<\/strong> Can you think of other examples? Does this happen in your language?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you want to emphasis something, one way to do this in English, and in a number of other languages, is to repeat the word. Sometimes the repeated word is altered, often to make a better rhyme. Sometimes the second word is one with a similar meaning to the first one and which rhymes with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\neasy peasy, really truly, holy moly
\n[additions] hurly-burly, helter-skelter, hob-nob, hodge-podge, flip-flop, riff-raff<\/p>\n
\ni nd\u00e1ir\u00edre p\u00edre = really truly; cogar mogar = whispering<\/p>\n
\n\u4eba\u3005 (hitobito) = everybody (\u4eba = person) – the symbol \u3005 indicates the duplication of a character.<\/p>\n
\n\u5c0f\u5c0f\u7684 (xi\u01ceoxiaode) = very small;
\n\u6eff\u6eff\u7684 (m\u01cenm\u01cende) = full to the brim (\u6eff\u7684 = full);
\n\u56db\u56db\u65b9\u65b9 (s\u00ecs\u00ecf\u0101ngf\u0101ng) = having the shape of a real square (\u56db\u65b9 = square).<\/p>\n