A: "I'd _rep your post a thousand times_, if I could."

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jun 7 20:29:37 UTC 2011


A is expressing his enthusiastic support for the opinion expressed in
an earlier post by B.

But what does _rep_ mean, exactly, in that context?

Does it mean, rapspeak-like, that "I wish that there were a thousand
other occasions on which I could 'represent' or publicly show my
support for your opinion"?

Or,

"I'd re-post your post to a thousand other sites"?

Or something more subtle?

Or something more obvious?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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