Talk:rape-rape

RFD discussion: November–December 2022
This seems to be SOP, as reduplication is often used to the effect of "in the most typical understanding of the word". A sponge is an animal, but not an animal-animal the way an elephant is. Speeding is a crime, but not a crime-crime like murder. And so forth.--Simplificationalizer (talk) 15:51, 7 November 2022 (UTC)


 * One of these entries came up before, maybe something like "friend friend"; anyone remember which one, so we can see the prior discussion? Equinox ◑ 15:53, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * See this. PUC – 05:18, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I don’t know the answer to that but this reminds me of the expression ‘out out’ (going out to party rather than to the shops, for example). --Overlordnat1 (talk) 16:22, 7 November 2022 (UTC)


 * We deleted some /ʃm/-reduplications like Talk:work schmerk and Talk:rational-shmational, and in Russian we deleted Talk:очень-очень. OTOH, you and Julia brought up (in a mostly-unrelated RFV of Talk:girl) that like like exists and has apparently never been RFDed. Talk:done done failed RFV rather than RFD. - -sche (discuss) 16:58, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I think is different, as it doesn't follow the same pattern. It's euphemistic. Theknightwho (talk) 19:17, 7 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete - this kind of reduplication is a common feature of English to mean something is genuine/authentic. You can do it with any noun, adjective or adverb (in theory). Theknightwho (talk) 16:26, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * To add to this - with nouns, the first use seems to be attributive. So it’s a car car (not a toy car), or they’re a friend friend (not a fake friend) and so on. Completely SOP. Theknightwho (talk) 16:48, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Like here, “a baby baby”, and here “regular bread bread”. --Lambiam 21:31, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Now I think about it, I think you can do it with verbs as well: "No, I mean he ran ran." Theknightwho (talk) 00:41, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Delete. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 17:40, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Jberkel 00:37, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * On a balance, delete, because (as discussed above) you do this with anything. And I mean anything anything. - -sche (discuss) 02:27, 29 November 2022 (UTC)


 * RFD deleted. Ultimateria (talk) 19:30, 14 December 2022 (UTC)