# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**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, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/21 "2002-04-28T14:18:04Z")
[I sleep talk in my sleep](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=112115) Heehee, a recent GQ thread. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/22 "2002-04-28T14:36:56Z")
From many, many, student papers: “Many people in society …” (As opposed, I guess, to cave-dwelling hermits?) ---
**Author:** ![UWmite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UWmite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UWmite)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/23 "2002-04-28T18:34:59Z")
My personal favorite is the “Cable ACE Awards,” as they’re often called. But ACE stands for Awards for Cable Excellence, so the full title is the Cable Awards for Cable Excellence Awards!?! Sheesh! ---
**Author:** ![NutWrench](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nutwrench/32/20193_2.png) [@NutWrench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutWrench)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/24 "2002-04-28T19:03:45Z")
Could you repeat all that? I wasn’t paying attention. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/25 "2002-04-29T13:54:40Z")
Heard on the local news recently: “Police reported there were **approximately about 5 or 6** shots fired…” Talk about being repetitiously redundant again and again… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/26 "2002-04-29T14:59:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by White Lightning \* > \*\*Did you use your PIN number at the ATM machine? \*\* Yeah, yeah, true, true…but c’mon, it’s not that bad. It’s just we’ve obviously become so accustomed to the arconym or initialization that we don’t think of the individual words. Anyhow, why is everything “pre-” anyway? Why do they say “this show was pre-recorded?” It was recorded before it was recorded? Huh? I suppose “pre-cooked” meal makes some sense, but isn’t “cooked” quite enough? Why not just “heat the oven to 400” rather than “pre-heating” it? ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/27 "2002-04-29T16:03:07Z")
I once had a client tell me that his ad had to read “open from 9am in the morning.” Another pet hate of mine is clients who insist they specialise in everything, as in, “We specialise in all form of…” That isn’t quite a redundancy, but it _is_ an idiocy. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/28 "2002-04-29T18:51:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tavalla \* > \*\*I once had a client tell me that his ad had to read “open from 9am in the morning.” > > Another pet hate of mine is clients who insist they specialise in everything, as in, “We specialise in all form of…” That isn’t quite a redundancy, but it _is_ an idiocy. \*\* Especially idiotic, because they either “specialise” or they do “all forms.” _One_ form would be specialization (forgive the “zee” - or is that “zed?” We colonials never learnt how to spell :D). ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/29 "2002-04-29T19:09:27Z")
I have noticed that train conductors in New Jersey are fond of “last and final.” I figured they were confusing “next and final,” which is perfectly sensible and non-redundant - but lately it’s turned to “next, last and final,” for which there’s no excuse. [insert cringing-smiley here] ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/30 "2002-04-29T19:18:33Z")
Lake Laguna, right here in SoCal. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051/31 "2002-04-29T19:34:33Z")
Don’t know if this is the type of redundancy you mean, but Stuart Lee (a British comedian - part of the double act of Lee and Herring) does a routine about a Hymn that contains nothing but redundancies. With the aid of flip charts and set diagrams, he mercilessly rips [All things bright and beautiful](http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/s-all-things-bright.html-ssi) apart - managing to get it down to the basic message: “All things, the Lord God made them” > [@](#): > > “Purple headed mountains”. In this case, you might reasonably question their ownership, but there you go, line 4 “The Lord God made them all”. It was God. Are you stupid or something? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-being-repetitiously-redundant-a-mild-rant/106051.md?page=1)