Off topic: Tautology can be very upsetting Initiator des Themas: Maaike van Vlijmen
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Maaike van Vlijmen 
Niederlande
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Özden Arıkan
Deutschland
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| This is what I call a passion for language :-) | Feb 10, 2007 |
Thanks, Maaike.
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Nicole Schnell
Vereinigte Staaten
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In stillem Gedenken
This man should receive a free gift for his efforts.
)
Best,
Nicole
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Vito Smolej
Deutschland
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SITE LOCALIZER | a free gift for his efforts | Feb 10, 2007 |
a pilotless, PILOTl ess, get it?!, pilot L-E-S-S, drone, OK? get it? you highschool drop-in - take it, your N/C, prolix, and tautologic drone and ... fly it in your bathtub, you ...D-R-O-N-E - "drone, drone drone..."
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Nicole Schnell
Vereinigte Staaten
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In stillem Gedenken | My favorite example of tautology | Feb 10, 2007 |
Besides "helpful assistance" and "new innovation" is "free gift". This one takes the cake, IMO. Not quite sure if this pun came across after reading Vito's outburst.
))))))
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Vito Smolej
Deutschland
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SITE LOCALIZER | I'm still actively working on fundamental basics of tautology... | Feb 10, 2007 |
Not quite sure if this pun came across after reading Vito's outburst.
... but if I don't get any better, I'll never improve.
[Edited at 2007-02-10 12:49]
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Steven Capsuto
Vereinigte Staaten
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| And this guy complains about the editor's prolix wording? | Feb 10, 2007 |
Pot... meet the kettle.
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Özden Arıkan
Deutschland
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| So that we are at it | Feb 10, 2007 |
My favorite tautology is "mother's milk"
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Terry Gilman
Deutschland
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| Nice to know that other people care, but that guy needs a life | Feb 10, 2007 |
Agree with Steven.
How pathetic that someone has so much time on his hands that he expends energy/free time calling a newspaper to berate people by voice mail.
I had a boss like that. Not a clue about how to motivate people or at least how to avoid de-motivating people.
Really irritating and naturally led to lower productivity.
A productivity crash, actually. Everyone in "hen-house mode" and thinking about revenge, not the clients.
Would be i... See more Agree with Steven.
How pathetic that someone has so much time on his hands that he expends energy/free time calling a newspaper to berate people by voice mail.
I had a boss like that. Not a clue about how to motivate people or at least how to avoid de-motivating people.
Really irritating and naturally led to lower productivity.
A productivity crash, actually. Everyone in "hen-house mode" and thinking about revenge, not the clients.
Would be interesting if he ever calls to say something nice and the blogger put that on the air as well. (But with cranks I guess that is unlikely.)
Other tautologies to get bent out of shape about:
current status, general consensus, universal panacea. ▲ Collapse
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Jack Doughty
Vereinigtes Königreich
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In stillem Gedenken | Helpful assistance | Feb 11, 2007 |
I'm not sure if this is a tautology. There's plenty of unhelpful assistance about, from MS Word's "Office Assistant" for example.
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Klaus Herrmann
Deutschland
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| Röschenhof, anyone? | Feb 11, 2007 |
For those of us who understand German, here's one of my favorites. It's also a valuable reminder not to take KudoZ too serious...
http://www.radiopannen.de/mp3/pr005.mp3
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JaneTranslates
Puerto Rico
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Spanisch > Englisch
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| Personal opinion | Feb 11, 2007 |
My personal friends all have personal opinions.
(My impersonal friends have other people's opinions.)
Blurb on a book cover: XXX is changing the way historiography is written.
And a few favorites for Spanish-speakers:
Veremos a ver.
No puede ser posible.
Eso puede afectar el entorno del medio ambiente que nos rodea. (Direct quotation from a university professor!)
Los niños son el futuro del mañana.
... See more My personal friends all have personal opinions.
(My impersonal friends have other people's opinions.)
Blurb on a book cover: XXX is changing the way historiography is written.
And a few favorites for Spanish-speakers:
Veremos a ver.
No puede ser posible.
Eso puede afectar el entorno del medio ambiente que nos rodea. (Direct quotation from a university professor!)
Los niños son el futuro del mañana.
And my all-time favorite:
Creo que lo dudo. ▲ Collapse
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juvera
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| Grrrrrrrrrrr | Feb 14, 2007 |
this moment in time
or
in this moment of time
[Edited at 2007-02-14 23:19]
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katsy
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| a couple of French ones | Feb 16, 2007 |
I've always been perplexed by the French (correct) expression: les cheveux hirsutes..
also.... à partir de dorénavant (as from now, from now on)
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au jour d'aujourd'hui - to be linked with the ' this moment in time' above...
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lingomania
Local time: 19:22
Italienisch > Englisch
The Italian: "specialità speciale".
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