Can you see Mt. Fuji-san from thar?
What about attorneys-at-law who put junky stuff into written documents like the following sequel:
Are they being paid compensation per and by the word?
I am able to view this thread because I have access t the internet; thanks to my working NIC card.
You read that and think “That’s an insane, nonsensical sentence. I could never come up with that!”. So you pay them.
They do it on purpose and for a reason.
I’ll respond to this thread after I finish up The TTP Project.
Remember that recall on my car’s ABS system? My car wasn’t recalled. I know because I checked the VIN number.
Can I get the chili con carne w/ meat on a panini sandwich?
I like how we are all cooperating together on this thread. I think we can agree on this unanimously by all members. If redundancy were funny, I’d have fallen down laughing by now. Based on past experiences, I can see this happening. It still might be the end result.
Like the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania.
Has anyone been to Lake Lagunita on the Stanford campus?
You can get there by taking the El Camino Real to Palo Alto.
I’d much rather have some cheesy queso and chips.
I’d like to drown people that say that in the Rio Grande river.
ETA: I actually grew up saying this…perhaps because Dad worked for the Rio Grande Railroad.
Sadly, Torpenhow Hill (meaning “hill hill hill hill” in four different languages) seems not to exist.
Also, to save time, the Wikipedia list of tautological place names.
you’re overexaggerating.
Is the part I bolded intentional?
It was probably an unintentional mistake.
Heh. My favorite cross-language redundancy is also Los Angeles related: The La Brea Tar Pits.
Apparently there’s also a spot somewhere in Great Britain called Torpenhowe Hill. Quadruply redundant!
Too late for edit – Torpenhowe hill doesn’t exist?!
It totally should.
There’s tons of those, actually. “-kill” names for rivers and creeks are all over the Northeast US where-ever the Dutch put down roots, and every single one of them now has “River” or “Creek” as an appendage in their current names.
Wallkill River, Kaaterskill (sp?) Creek, Fishkill Creek, to name a few I know of.
Also as long as I’m here spamming all over the thread – that Wikipedia article on Torpenhow Hill is sort of a buzz kill. Torpenhow (the town) does exist; and if there is a hill nearby named after the town – well, the derivation might not be as popularly imagined, but that wouldn’t alter the entertainment value of the redundancy. Secondly, the article is stretching the point when it argues that Tor, Pen and How don’t all mean exactly the same thing, so maybe the town was named all at once in one language as “head-peak-hill” or whatever …
Spoilsport.
Wow - the double-redundant post. Well done.