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Is 'get' just the author's typo or intended for another meaning?And what does 'indeed' mean?

Teechr · Accepted Answer

It's not a mistake. It's a derisive remark, expressing contempt and displeasure.
The use of "indeed" is exclamatory in line with the rest of the sentence.

CalifJim · Answer

contrapositionRookwood get him a job indeed. Is 'get' just the author's typo or intended for another meaning?

No, it's not a typo. The sentence has an unusual grammar. This is called a "Mad Magazine sentence" (MM sentence), after the model sentence, "What, me worry?" which is a sort of motto sentence in Mad Magazine, an American publication. This kind of sentence is also called an "incredulity response construction" (IRC) because it dismisses the possibility that the content of the sentence could be true.

Here are other examples which I found online:

My boss give me a raise?! (Ha.)
Him wear a tuxedo?! (Sure.)

This construction has much in common with imperatives, but it is often expressed as a question. The verb is in the imperative form, never in any tense. Modal verbs are not used. The subject is accusative ('him', not 'he'; 'them', not 'they', etc.) and cannot be a dummy subject like 'it' or 'there'. The construction cannot take sentential adverbs (like 'unfortunately').

In the case of your example, the idea is that it is absurd to think that Rockwood might get him a job.

contrapositionwhat does 'indeed' mean?

It fits in the same place and has the same function as (Ha.) or (Sure.) in the examples above. It's a word that connotes a sort of laughter at the absurdity of the idea expressed in the preceding MM sentence, as if to ask rhetorically, "Would anyone actually believe that?" or very colloquially "Not gonna happen".

Note: indeed may have other meanings in other contexts.

CJ

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