Timeline for "Are you sure sure" — is this repetition grammatically correct?
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| Feb 26, 2019 at 18:59 | comment | added | Mitch | Most people mean by 'correct' as what their teacher in high school would allow. So the reduplication is not particularly formal and you'd lose your job as a journalist if you used it. Just so that non-native speakers can understand what's going on, native speakers will still use this pattern informally (in this very particular way). | |
| Feb 26, 2019 at 18:15 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Feb 26, 2019 at 17:59 | history | answered | Robert Talada | CC BY-SA 4.0 |