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"More more"? Isn't one more enough? Or "more more" means "many more" or "much more"?

 
 
Reply Mon 18 Nov, 2013 08:24 pm
Context:
Evidence Found for Granite On Mars: Red Planet More More Geologically Complex Than Thought
Nov. 18, 2013 — Researchers now have stronger evidence of granite on Mars and a new theory for how the granite -- an igneous rock common on Earth -- could have formed there, according to a new study. The findings suggest a much more geologically complex Mars than previously believed.

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Reply Mon 18 Nov, 2013 09:46 pm
@oristarA,
I've never seen that construction before, and really don't have any idea why they did that.

Now, if a young lady moved in such a way as to show a nice leg, one might say, "More! More! More!" but that is clearly not what is going on here.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Tue 19 Nov, 2013 03:12 am
I suggest that this is a compositional error. In the old days, before computers, it would have been a typesetting error.
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Reply Tue 19 Nov, 2013 07:55 am

They evidently meant to write "much more".
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Reply Tue 19 Nov, 2013 03:05 pm
@McTag,
That's my feeling too.
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