question

Bruce A. Mah bmah at freebsd.org
Sun Aug 20 22:03:35 UTC 2006


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.  :-)

Bruce.

PS.  Too much coding.  I'm getting silly.

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