“I don’t just like her. I like like her.”
Biology books are filled to the brim with that kind of thing, albeit in Latin. Vulpes vulpes, Alces alces, Axis axis, Dama dama…Well, you get the picture.
The only ones that are really like “that that” so far are “had had” and “do do”.
You could, could you?
I have joined War On Want; I want want eliminated from the world.
In my drawer I have many candles; heavy ones that don’t burn well and light ones that do; dark ones that shed surprisingly little light for their fuel value, and light ones that are perhaps less decorative but far more efficient. So when I want light, I light light light candles.
But there’s no reason to do that. In these cases, you drop the second article:
“Where can I buy the Hangover poster?”
“I told the Times reporter to take a flying leap.”
“George Harrison was the Beatles’ lead guitarist.”
I remember a quiz question regarding how you could use the word ‘and’ in a legitimate statement seven times consecutively with the statement still making sense.
IIRC the gist was that another person had used a sentence with three 'and’s in it and the statement was from someone correcting the first person’s grammar.
It went something like “you need to put a comma between and and and and and and and”.
Was a while ago and I can’t for the life of me recreate it in my head.
Probably a lot of words that are both nouns and verbs (or parts of verb phrases) can be doubled. Might might make right, but will will win in the end.
I’ve used ‘was was’ before, but I’d have to find it. It was colloquial though and if it hadn’t been dialogue I’d have rewritten it.
There’s the Spanish 101 “¿Como como? Como como como.”
(“How do I eat? I eat like I eat.” Which is not exactly likely to be said, but at least plausible, which is more than I can say for the Buffalo ^ n sentences)
The version I heard was the owner of a pub called ‘The Pig and Whistle’ complaining to the man that had painted the pub sign:
“The spaces between Pig and And and And and Whistle are not equal”.
If you want to extend that to nine, you can just ask yourself if, in the sentence above, the spaces between Pig and and and and and And and And and and and and and Whistle are equal. And so forth.
What today is is a new day.
Verbs of motion in English until recently - as French does to this day - used the verb to be as the auxiliary in the perfect tenses, instead of to have. So in present usage the auxiliary for the pluperfect is had, but formerly it was was.
Doctor Who, who is a time lord, travels in his Tardis.
I saw the man man the lifeboat.
I’m talking about Wonder Woman, woman.
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the king of Swamp Castle says at one point, “When I started here, all there was was swamp!”
Wouldn’t the sentence ‘I want to put two hyphens between the words Pig and And, and And and Whistle in my Pig-And-Whistle sign’ have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Pig, and between Pig and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Whistle, and after Whistle?
I see that I should have had twenty-one ands in my last sentence, rather than nine. Not enough time on my ands, apparently.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it would make more grammatical sense by substituting ‘their’ for the second ‘that’:
“The two men have so much to say to each other that their initial encounter turns into a 13-hour conversation.”
Or even:
“The two men had so much to say to each other that their initial encounter turned into a 13-hour conversation.”
(Changed words in bold)
I realize this doesn’t help with the question; it just seems to me the example sentence is sloppy.
I’m washing my ands of this thread and leaving it alone from here on out.
I slammed my finger in my filing cabinet last week, and muttered “Fk fk fk FK fk fk!” It would have made perfect sense to anyone listening.