The tenth day of the tenth month is observed by many Chinese as the anniversary of the outbreak of the revolution against the imperial Manchu dynasty in 1911. Today we celebrate Double Tenth Day by observing the presence of duplication and reduplication in our language.

We admit we sound like we're repeating ourselves when we talk about duplication and reduplication. But in fact, duplication is not always the same as reduplication. To duplicate is "to make double or twofold"; while to reduplicate is "to repeat all or part of a radical word element (usually at the beginning of the word) or to form a word that way." For example, hush-hush and buddy-buddy are both duplications and reduplications, while chitchat and clankety-clank are reduplications. By the way, reduplication occurs in many other languages besides English.

Now let's turn our attention to a specific sort of reduplication: anadiplosis. From the Greek word for "repetition," anadiplosis refers to "the repetition of a prominent word, usually the last from a phrase, a clause, a sentence, or a verse, at the beginning of the next verse, sentence, clause or phrase." Ready for an example? We've got two.

"Talent is an adornment; an adornment is also a concealment," observed Friedrich Nietzsche.

Another philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, wrote, "Everything that can be said, can be said clearly."

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