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Fetch a Fair Fetching Price?
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✭✭FlopsyPrince wrote: »If you disagree, please note an example of good English where a word is repeated in the same sentence? Find an example in a writing Style book as well.
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;"
If it's good enough for Shakespeare (twice in the same phrase) then it's good enough for me
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✭✭✭✭✭Mirri constantly calling everything fetchers is one of the main reasons I stopped using her.PCNA1 -
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✭✭It is not redundant if the words sounds the same but have different meanings. It's not bad English. It's called alliteration. It's a thing writers even do on purpose for effect.1 -
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✭✭✭✭✭It is not redundant if the words sounds the same but have different meanings. It's not bad English. It's called alliteration. It's a thing writers even do on purpose for effect.
Actually alliteration is the using of words beginning with the same letter several times in a sentence. Words which sound the same but have different meanings are homonyms.1 -
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✭✭Sylvermynx wrote: »It is not redundant if the words sounds the same but have different meanings. It's not bad English. It's called alliteration. It's a thing writers even do on purpose for effect.
Actually alliteration is the using of words beginning with the same letter several times in a sentence. Words which sound the same but have different meanings are homonyms.
I know what both are. And it is alliteration when you use homonyms in this way. It was on purpose. Alliteration doesn't have to be one letter or two letters or any specific amount. It is the repetition of a sound. Repeating the same single-syllable word that has different meanings in close proximity is alliteration.
The point is, it was not "bad English."0 -
joerginger✭✭✭✭✭You're right, but so is the other person. If the words are identical, it's at the same time an alliteration. Perhaps even a figura etymologica on top if it's two different words / parts of speech from the same word family.
Apologies for derailing your thread even further, OT! But talking about these things is simply too tempting not to do this.
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✭✭✭joerginger wrote: »You're right, but so is the other person. If the words are identical, it's at the same time an alliteration. Perhaps even a figura etymologica on top if it's two different words / parts of speech from the same word family.
Apologies for derailing your thread even further, OT! But talking about these things is simply too tempting not to do this.
I don't mind. It was just something I wanted to note. I don't find this speech as part of daily life either, even cursing.
Others seem to love it, so whatever!PC
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Zephiran23✭✭✭✭If you had had a better example, then I might have had to admit I had been convinced.
However, I think it's fine and gives her some sort of personality in the limited number of lines she has to use. It also fits from most of the encounters with NPCs in TES Morrowwind.1