Don't you hate repetitious redundancies? (Very mild rant)

I just saw a commercial which mentioned an “unexpected surprise,” as if there were any other kind. On TV they are always touting “free” gifts, and telling us that their unique product is one of a kind. Don’t you just hate that?

What other repetitious redundancies can you think of?

The electronic debit card readers at my gas station and grocery store both say “Please enter your PIN number”. You would think that all of the time and money that went into developing those things, someone would have noticed.

Not redundant per se, but certainly superfluous, is the claim that “We’ll beat anyone’s price, or it’s free.” I find it highly unlikely that they would go for the latter option, so it’s really equivalent to merely saying, “We’ll beat anyone’s price.”

There’s an ad running on the radio here about a car dealer’s end-of-model-year sale. Apparently, it’s the “last and final” sale of the season.

I also recall being irritated about another ad for something that was “easy and simple” to use.

“Added bonus” “Available options”

Well, see the problem is the alternative is to say “Please enter your PI Number” and then you’d have people entering 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 all the time … :cool:

I myself will take a brief moment to repeat again that it’s a true fact that empty space is compeletely filled with exactly the same freezing cold subatomic particles that each and every knoweldgable expert and fellow colleague, in a consensus of opinion combined together from past experience, has made crystal clear is absolutely necessary.

Wow! All in one single sentence!

Department of Redundancy Department

An elderly man once told me he was ‘always in constant pain’.

I blame New Zealand.

The conductor on the train into town:

“This will be our last and final station stop.”

One that always jarred me when I heard it was a Sears year-end sale commercial in which the announcer trumpeted, “It only comes but once a year.”

No doubt everyone hates hearing about ATM Machines and those darned SAT Tests. Yes, I know these have been mentioned before but I thought it was worth repeating again once more for a second time.

How is this redundant? After all, you can partially fill something.

Never mind. Sorry. Late night brain fart thing.

“Repetitious redundancies” is a repetitious redundancy. “Tautology” is more succinct.

One of my dad’s favorite lines:

“I have reiterated over and over again what I have said before.”

He often had, too. :slight_smile:

What I hate are those commercials that say “no other razor gives you a closer shave than XXXXX” and “no other detergent makes your laundry cleaner than YYYYY”. I want to scream “no other razor than what???”.

The claim isn’t about the razor; it’s about the shave. So, it’s a closer shave than all other razors.

(Did I do better? :))