Comments on: Independent Sources’ list of unnecessary redundancies repeated more than once

By: Insider

Insider — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:40:04 +0000

I’ll give you this. You’ve thought it through more than most but I still think it’s redundant.

BTW, I just google searched and over 1.4 million results came up with the vast majority being unnecessary redundancies. Does that explanation clear it up?

Can you count the number of redundancies that I intentionallly included on purpose?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:59:27 +0000

Consider this: someone is throwing you a surprise party. You have become aware of the fact that the surprise party is going to be thrown, however, you do not know when it will be thrown. When you arrived at the party, would it not be an “expected surprise”? Hence, the opposite is an unexpected surprise, of course.

By: The Stevo in H-Town

The Stevo in H-Town — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:27:16 +0000

Bill Lalor….
My favrit…..”orientated”

By: The Stevo in H-Town

The Stevo in H-Town — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:51:55 +0000

I know I’m missin’ an opprtunity for a “funny joke” here somewhere…

By: Insider

Insider — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:07:58 +0000

Particularly lists of things.

By: Crassius Maximus

Crassius Maximus — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:50:52 +0000

One thing is certain: People love lists.

By: Insider

Insider — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:47:27 +0000

I’m also thinking “individual packet” is redundant and in fact “individual” in front of almost any noun is probably unnecessarily wordy. Wait, that’s redundant too since I could just have said “wordy”. When is being wordy “necessary”? Damn this is hard.

By: Insider

Insider — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:34:07 +0000

Independent Consultant?

By: Bill Lalor

Bill Lalor — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:00:38 +0000

You missed the Department of Redundancy Department.

I’m working on my own lists: made up words(eg “irregardless”; “acclimitated”); and often confused/misused words (wary/weary).

By: Insider

Insider — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:39:00 +0000

Murdered to death.

By: Bucky O'Grog

Bucky O'Grog — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:32:44 +0000

stinky turd

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By: Robb Allen

Robb Allen — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:59:15 +0000

I’ve seen various permutations of “lethal fatality” in news stories. Trying to remember what they were…