Please stop being repetitiously redundant. (A mild rant)

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I sleep talk in my sleep

Heehee, a recent GQ thread.

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From many, many, student papers:

“Many people in society …” (As opposed, I guess, to cave-dwelling hermits?)

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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!

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Could you repeat all that? I wasn’t paying attention.

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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…

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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?

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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.

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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).

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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]

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Lake Laguna, right here in SoCal.

Esprix

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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 apart - managing to get it down to the basic message: “All things, the Lord God made them”