question

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Sun Aug 20 23:53:08 UTC 2006


On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:03:29 -0700
"Bruce A. Mah" <bmah at freebsd.org> wrote:

> If memory serves me right, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> > Hello Bruce,
> > 
> > Sunday, August 20, 2006, 10:50:10 PM, you wrote:
> > 
> >> The double "very" is used to indicate emphasis.  I presume it's
> >> intentional, since I've seen it used in other places, although I tend
> >> not to use it in my own writing.  I guess I prefer to emphasize using
> >> means other than repeating words (unless I'm being sarcastic or silly).
> >>  Not sure how it should be punctuated.
> > 
> > maybe we should rather go for single <emphasis>very</emphasis>? ;)
> 
> I like this idea very, very, very, very much.  :-)
> 

Yea, I'm going to have Daniel remove the double.

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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