# Please stop being repetitiously redundant. (A mild rant) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 28, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051 "2002-04-28T02:54:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/1 "2002-04-28T02:54:24Z")
I know I should just let it go, but when I hear the newscaster speak of “the legacy (blank) left behind” (as if legacies are other than left behind), the traffic person say someone is “heading south-bound” (because if he just said “heading south” or “southbound” we wouldn’t get that progress in a certain a direction was being suggested), or the weather person state without a hint of embarrassment that the temperature is “now currently 65 degrees” I want to _scream!_ Then there’s the commercial for an asthma preparation that is “already pre-mixed.” I once had a teacher of pastel painting who constantly said “also too,” as if either “also” or '“too” alone would not convey that he was adding something. What common redundancies irritate you? Or am I the only one neurotic enough to take any notice? Don’t even get me started on, “really, really.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Chief\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/2 "2002-04-28T03:36:20Z")
Isn’t the phrase “repetitiously redundant” sort of guilty of this in its own way? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/3 "2002-04-28T04:21:39Z")
Now, now. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/4 "2002-04-28T04:34:57Z")
Not exactly a redundancy, just a nitwit thing to say. Charlotte Church… [http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid\_1954000/1954216.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_1954000/1954216.stm) > [@](#): > > “I like to support a lot of children’s charities because I feel that I can relate more to children, rather than helping adults’ charities, who may feel a bit patronised by a 16-year-old helping them.” Um? I’m trying to picture _any_ of the grownups I know feeling that a _teenager_ was condescending to _them_–trying, and failing utterly. And as long as I’m sitting here browsing the Beeb, yet another nitwit thing to say. “Former cabinet minister Mo Mowlam has called for the legalisation of all drugs - including ecstasy, heroin and cocaine…” and she opines: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk\_politics/newsid\_1955000/1955789.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1955000/1955789.stm) > [@](#): > > “Why not regulate it, take the tax from it and seriously deal with addiction which has been around since the 1900s?” Yes, Mo, that’s right, we’ve only had the problem of drug addiction for the last hundred years or so… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/5 "2002-04-28T04:42:29Z")
Jim and I were just discussing this the other day, when I went to get some cash money from the ATM machine, just after we finished discussing how the AIDS syndrome may or may not be linked to the HIV virus. Then we went to buy a CD disk, which I’m also able to play in my PC computer. ---
**Author:** ![Cargogal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@Cargogal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cargogal)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/6 "2002-04-28T05:46:35Z")
Heard in a bar this weekend: “We had to give the cops the VIN number…” “PIN number” also annoys me. Mount Fujiyama. Corrupt politician. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/7 "2002-04-28T05:50:13Z")
There’s a poster on the boards somewhere whose location tag says “inside the ATM machine.” It annoys me every single time I see it. My father once said he had to stop and get cash from the “automatic ATM machine.” “This race car is a NASCAR stock car.” ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/8 "2002-04-28T06:16:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chief Crunch \* > \*\*Isn’t the phrase “repetitiously redundant” sort of guilty of this in its own way? \*\* WHOOSH! That’s kinda the point, son. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/9 "2002-04-28T06:22:42Z")
Did you use your PIN number at the ATM machine? ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/10 "2002-04-28T06:26:09Z")
She promised a free gift to anyone who wold kill the great big huge spider behind the hot water heater in the store full of old antiques. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/11 "2002-04-28T06:27:49Z")
Oops. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/12 "2002-04-28T06:28:33Z")
_I_ wold. I _would_, too, but I’m too fat to fit behind the hot water heater. :o ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/13 "2002-04-28T07:52:45Z")
I hereby bestow the title(s) of Pedant(s) of the Week upon Desertgeezer and all of his fawning advocates. Geeeeeeez As I head off to the ATM machine!!! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/14 "2002-04-28T11:03:07Z")
How about “Mexican Food Restaurant”? Doesn’t “restaurant” imply "food "? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/15 "2002-04-28T12:36:04Z")
The Avon River. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/16 "2002-04-28T13:05:16Z")
“Right now at this point in time.” ---
**Author:** ![DopeyDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@DopeyDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DopeyDave)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/17 "2002-04-28T13:10:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kambuckta \* > \*\*I hereby bestow the title(s) of Pedant(s) of the Week upon Desertgeezer and all of his fawning advocates. > \*\* Don’t you mean ‘fawning _acolytes_’? 😉 As an added bonus, how about the line from wooden psychology lecturer that woke up his students with the welcome request:’ **And now let me finish with one final conclusion.** ’ ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/18 "2002-04-28T13:35:25Z")
Last night, the news referred to a five-year-old child. As opposed, one assumes, to those five-year-old adults you see around all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/19 "2002-04-28T13:47:35Z")
From another thread, that is not really worth linking to … “He was an atheist who didn’t believe in God.” ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/20 "2002-04-28T13:53:51Z")
You should take this up with the Department of Redundancy Dept. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051.md?page=2)