The Quintessential Quintuplets & Higurashi - What does it mean to repeat a word? Does たのしいたのしい means fun-filled?


# 1 - [Higurashi](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/67711/is-umineko-
actually-spoiling-half-of-higurashi-because-umineko-is-meant-to-come) /
[Umineko](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/98264/motokano-s01e01-addressing-
referring-your-step-parents-as-1st-name-san-vs-aun) When They Cry

**Minor spoilers for Higurashi season 1 and NSFW / violent content** : See
1:41 [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQXWXILVbtU&t=101s) when Sonozaki
wants to go to the 'fun-filled' underground torture chamber.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DrFv3l.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DrFv3l.png)

I remember when I 1st watched this in 2009 the subtitles said 'fun-fun'.
Anyhoo repeating 楽しい(tanoshii たのし​い) I guess means full of something so X-X is
full of X?

# 2 - [The Quintessential
Quintuplets](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/93612/the-
quintessential-quintuplets-
aka-%E4%BA%94%E7%AD%89%E5%88%86%E3%81%AE%E8%8A%B1%E5%AB%81-is-%E5%B1%8A%E3%81%8F%E3%82%93%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99-it-
reaches-a-mondegreen) S01E01

  * Related: [The Quintessential Quintuplets - Difference between うそうそ (uso uso) and 冗談 (じょうだん jōdan joke)](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/98417/the-quintessential-quintuplets-difference-between-%e3%81%86%e3%81%9d%e3%81%86%e3%81%9d-uso-uso-and-%e5%86%97%e8%ab%87-%e3%81%98%e3%82%87%e3%81%86%e3%81%a0%e3%82%93)

See [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqLeBXlNsrQ&t=156s) 2:36 - 2:44.
The imouto Raiha Uesugi of the male protagonist Fuutarou Uesugi says 'うそうそ'
(uso uso).

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YcTc8l.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YcTc8l.png)

In the manga:

> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zOVzxl.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zOVzxl.png)

So here uso uso means full of lies?

Or I have a feeling in this 2nd case it's a thing people do like even in
English when they say 'Okay. Okay', 'I see. I see', 'Indeed. Indeed' or 'Oh
man. Oh man.'

  * Edit: Re Chance's 'ジョークジョーク' and 'うそだよ' - actually these are exactly what Weevil Underwood (Insector Haga) says to Yugi / Atem [in 0:35-0:45 here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqmPknhHEVE&t=35s) in the Orichalcos arc of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. (Or maybe Weevil says うそだいぇ or うそだぇ.) Lol.




Repeating a noun like うそうそ 冗談冗談 ジョークジョーク mean like うそだよ 冗談だよ ジョークだよ.  
You could repeat them more than twice うそうそうそ 冗談冗談冗談 ジョークジョークジョーク, but it's
used when you're upset like the listener got angry.  
And it sounds strange if you don't repeat them like うそ 冗談 ジョーク.  
I wouldn’t realize what you declared immediately.

I have no example words other than them.  
簡単簡単 大丈夫大丈夫 is used, but it's like a kind of adjective, doesn't refer to what
the speaker said and can be used even without repeating, compared to うそうそ.

楽しい楽しい is a different problem.  
楽しい楽しい is emphasis of 楽しい, which may have a childish nuance like a word in
picture book.  
We rarely use it in a real conversation.  
Examples  
遠い遠い場所に住む友達  
悲しい悲しいお話  
大きな大きな動物

