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"Unnecessary Redundancies" game
The Walking Dictionary and Grammar Guide Started conversation Feb 4, 2007
It could also be called, for example, the "Inessential Superfluities" game (yes, I do have a thesaurus!) but "Unnecessary Redundancies" has a nice ring to it, IMHO. I'll start us off on a slightly morbid note with:
Dead Murder Victim
"Unnecessary Redundancies" game
PedanticBarSteward Posted Feb 4, 2007
Repeating tautology might be another name for it.
"Unnecessary Redundancies" game
Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Feb 4, 2007
Sportscasters are renowned for their tautologies 
So is advertising .... A new innovation!
"Unnecessary Redundancies" game
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Feb 5, 2007
yes.. ageing pensioners are often spoken of...
Helpless infants too...
"Unnecessary Redundancies" game
Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Feb 6, 2007
Dumb footballers?
"Unnecessary Redundancies" game
The Walking Dictionary and Grammar Guide Posted Feb 22, 2007
Mutual codependency--
"I have struggled with codependency for many years and am currently recovering from a broken marriage that was destroyed by mutual codependency."
"Film probes the mutual codependency between fan and fame"
"The asymmetry in metabolic capabilities results in a mutual co-dependency that inextricably links producers with decomposers and forms the foundation of ..."
"The mutual co-dependency of mother and child, subject and object, cosseted in a womblike world which attempts to suture over the cuts of language, ..."
These are examples gathered from a perfunctory google search--it almost surprises me how many people use this one.
"Unnecessary Redundancies" game
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Feb 22, 2007
That one's fab!
"Unnecessary Redundancies" game
PedanticBarSteward Posted Feb 24, 2007
If you go to
http://www.wordexplorations.info/pleonasm.html
You have got the lot!
"Unnecessary Redundancies" game
Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted May 8, 2007
I caught a stonker of one on the radio at the weekend... A fact was qualified as TRUE! yes, and the two words were with one another. These 'true facts' have come to light or some such... It makes you wonder how freudian it could be... How many untrue 'facts' has this person spoken? hmmm!
"Unnecessary Redundancies" game
royallpcyu Posted May 19, 2007
Make a U-Turn at the next Dead/Deed End please.
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"Unnecessary Redundancies" game
- 1: The Walking Dictionary and Grammar Guide (Feb 4, 2007)
- 2: PedanticBarSteward (Feb 4, 2007)
- 3: Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... (Feb 4, 2007)
- 4: PedanticBarSteward (Feb 4, 2007)
- 5: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Feb 5, 2007)
- 6: PedanticBarSteward (Feb 6, 2007)
- 7: Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... (Feb 6, 2007)
- 8: PedanticBarSteward (Feb 6, 2007)
- 9: The Walking Dictionary and Grammar Guide (Feb 22, 2007)
- 10: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Feb 22, 2007)
- 11: PedanticBarSteward (Feb 24, 2007)
- 12: PedanticBarSteward (Feb 24, 2007)
- 13: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (May 8, 2007)
- 14: royallpcyu (May 19, 2007)
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