Language has interesting little asides to offer. Suppose you
wrote:
‘It’s good to know you, you know?’
No self-respecting writer would commit such an ugly
utterance to paper. Having the same word repeated without a break doesn’t trip
easily off the tongue. And yet it has symmetry to commend it.
The same can’t be said of the phrase an ex-colleague of mine
used when he was making appointments over the phone: ‘See you then, then.’
Terrible.
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