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

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:29 PM -0400 6/7/11, Wilson Gray wrote:
>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?

If there's a "rep" in there along with the re- of "repost", I suspect
it's not 'represent' but 'repeat'/'repetition', as in "I did 50
reps", as used by athletes or others working out/exercising. Not sure
if it's used as a verb though (to rep = 'do/perform a rep').

LH

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