>> This in itself is less bad than my mum's pathology of repeating words 
>> to differentiate them. "This is the total. Well, I mean, it's not the 
>> *total* total, but it's the total." WTF?
> 
> My favorite was "The car wasn't just totaled. It was completely totaled!"

I saw this cat the other day, and it was really ugly! Well, I mean, it 
wasn't ugly ugly, but it was pretty ugly.

WTF?

>> I haven't come across either of these mistakes myself...
> 
> I think you get it more in places people tend to use english less.

Probably.

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