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When someone mentions Carol King instead I think Carol Channing. Always a surprise when the singing starts

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An unexpected backshift is what makes this Simpsons quote from Mr. Burns so memorable: https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/720db2eb-f0c5-4cea-afd7-ac5c5d737194

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In Argentina, “re” is used in the same way as “muy”, as in “Es re sabroso.”

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Is there a ‘transitive re-‘? So many of the ‘re-‘ words that are nearly synonymous with their stems seem to add a quality of transferral or sharing. So the repetition would be from passing it along?

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