Language Check!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

[Poll #1583171]

Also, this one’s not as official, but you’re welcome to use the comments to fill in the hilarious current ironic internet slang term that will take on another layer of irony when the next generation finds out our dorky selves used it back in the day!

Comments

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

You're right, it's not an Oxford comma, but it's also not correct. 'really, really great' is an adjectival phrase. Both 'really's there are heads intensifying 'great' and thus playing the part of coordinate modifiers; when that is the case, you only need a comma between the modifiers in the phrase, but not between modifier and adjective. (How to test: take out the first adverb and you would wind up with *"The internet is really, great.")

Granted, this is nonstandard because in this case the modifiers are a redoubling of a single intensifier, but it takes on the same construction as a coordinate modifier in English. (As redoubling is not used in many cases, I have also seen it take on hierarchichal construction, as in "the internet is really really great," with the first 'really' intensifying the second 'really' and thus not needing a comma, but that seems less prevalent.)

All this malarkey aside, though, the way it's SAID sure sounds like there's a comma there. ;)