Two same words in a row give me a feeling of fatigue

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See the context below. As I read two "fundamentals," somehow I got a feeling that was very boring and tired. Could you change the second "fundamental" to another word with same meaning?

Context:
Particles break light-speed limit
Neutrino results challenge cornerstone of modern physics.

Geoff Brumfiel

An Italian experiment has unveiled evidence that fundamental particles known as neutrinos can travel faster than light. Other researchers are cautious about the result, but if it stands further scrutiny, the finding would overturn the most fundamental rule of modern physics — that nothing travels faster than 299,792,458 metres per second.
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http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110922/full/news.2011.554.html

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@oristarA,

basic, but that doesn't do as well as fundamental.

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@oristarA,

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Two same words in a row give me a feeling of fatigue

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To sedulous epizeuxis.

He lepton a negative and charged in to elide the first fundamental

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@oristarA,

what what what what?
http://thesaurus.com/browse/fundamental

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Is primary acceptable?

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@oristarA,

Yes...

Trying to think of better for you......

Absolute?

Primary isn't bad

Crucial?

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

Yes...

Trying to think of better for you......

Absolute?

Primary isn't bad

Crucial?

Thank you.

I think in that context the second fundamental has been used best. We may use "basic" to substitute the first one.

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@oristarA,

By the way.....we don't say "two same words in a row give me a feeling of fatigue"

Seeing the same word twice in a row gives me a feeling of fatigue....or makes me feel tired....or makes me feel fatigued.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Is primary acceptable?

Yes, if u intend to rank them into different categories.

Another way to express the point without doubling use of the same word
is to add an intensifier, e.g.: deeply fundamental, extremely fundamental, etc.

David

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@oristarA,

At the second use I would remove the word most and replace fundamental with cardinal or primary or even central.

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@oristarA,

"rudimentary" seems like a good alternative for the second.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Is primary acceptable?

"Primary" connotes the possibility of an implication of ranking sequentially in order of precedence:
primary, secondary, tertiary etc.; i.e., if the subject matter of the sentence is FIRST, what is second ?

Two same words in a row give me a feeling of fatigue

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