Note 8.4 — Front matter

Se necesita que... no lo aferre, There can't be a fish in the sea without this wretch catching it, lit. "it is necessary that there be not... in order that he may not catch it." The prefix re-, attached to adjectives, adverbs and, less frequently, to nouns, is characteristic of familiar style. It adds an intensive or superlative force, which undoubtedly derives from its original force of repetition. Sometimes doubled, or takes the form rete-, e.g. ¡Qué reteinfamia! "What terrible infamy!"