Laugh all you want, but if you clock in 5 minutes late again we’ll cut your pay.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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there is a spectre haunting starbucks
profit is theft
where is the “me with a $50 billion USD shaped tummy” joke
after after
kid named contrastive focus reduplication
ok. never heard of that. the more you know i guess. but I'd say that it is totally unnecessary in this case and a bit of a stretch. or maybe I don't fully understand it. it's 2 am where i live and I'm tired. so i could totally be wrong 😅 maybe i give it another try tomorrow.
That's not what this is though. You aren't emphasizing how "after" it was. You aren't distinguishing it from some sort of "before-after". This is just a typo.
yall its an intentional typo for the funny lmao stop reading into it plspls
it's maybe not contrastive focus reduplication as Wikipedia defines it, but that is the closest label i know for this concept.
it's kinda like... like when you pause to search for an example and then repeat the word "like" when you resume the thought. it's an idiom, maybe helps to clue the listener that you're completing a paused sentence instead of starting a new one, maybe makes it easier to communicate intended tonal shifts since it lets that shift happen between two identical words (making the tonal difference unmistakable) instead of between two different words (where the difference in tone could be mistaken for a difference in pronunciation).
i've used repetition in this meme format deliberately. the intended reading is really similar to that "like... like" example: the top text is light/airy, then a pause as you jump to the bottom, and then the bottom text is serious/mono-tone. voice it out loud in that manner, with and then without the repetition, and see if one feels more natural to you than the other. i'm curious how much this idiom varies among speakers.
interesting pov, not where i was coming from when i wrote this meme but not without basis in reality
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I can live with that. that sounds reasonable.
That's not a problem you should care about though what you should care about is "time theft" and people shoplifting essentials.
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"after after" so, thats after AFTER they've alreay stole 50 bil? hmmmm speeling mistake? naahhhh
It's a common meme format/trope to repeat the last word in the top text as the first word in the bottom text.
Pulling their own hair in the shower with clothes on? That’s absurd. It checks out.