About the structure and usage of 奇了怪了
I was watching a Chinese program just now, there were 2 guys and one of them was acting really strange. The second guy walked of saying 奇了怪了. I took it to mean 'very odd/strange', but I'm wondering about the structuring of it.

This obviously comes from the word 奇怪. I've never seen a word split up and used like this. Are there other examples where you do this to words, split them up and add the 了s like this?

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About the structure and usage of 奇了怪了
I was watching a Chinese program just now, there were 2 guys and one of them was acting really strange. The second guy walked of saying 奇了怪了. I took it to mean 'very odd/strange', but I'm wondering about the structuring of it.

This obviously comes from the word 奇怪. I've never seen a word split up and used like this. Are there other examples where you do this to words, split them up and add the 了s like this?

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“奇了怪了”just means"奇怪"， it's a more colloquial phrase which enhance your strange feeling about something by longthen the time you say it and add rhythm to it.

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Normally we use this kind of structure to emphasize the adj.

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奇 and 怪 are synonymy，you can use them together and apart. here 奇了怪了,it's not a slang,just a kind of enhancement.

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China has a lot of spoken language, is very interesting.“喵了个咪的”.Daily joke, don't appear in the books.

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