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« on: September 13, 2015, 08:55:02 AM »


similar ideas for questions,
What is your favorite logical fallacy?
Your least favorite trite cliché?
The most annoying incorrect grammar or spelling errors?

Anyway, here are a few example to get us started:

Please RSVP = please please respond
The hoi polloi = the the people
Very unique = very one of a kind
Unexpected surprise
Difficult dilemma

Invited guests
Few in number
As for example
Plan ahead
Possibly might

Foreign imports
Forever and ever
Suddenly exploded
Free gift
Unintended mistake

(For extra credit find errors in my opening comments)
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« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2015, 09:01:44 AM »

"trite cliché"...

Anyway, I'll postpone coming up with my own until later.
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« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2015, 09:33:57 AM »

ATM Machine
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Mr. Smith
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« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2015, 09:49:25 AM »

false pretenses
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« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2015, 10:53:48 AM »

A sampling, but mostly that was a statement about the use of acronyms:

What are some issues where you would be considered a nut in the USA?

The use of acronyms.  Especially irritating is their use redundantly, which seems to be all the rage.

"Do you have an ATM machine?"  "Enter your PIN number."  "...infected with the HIV virus..."  "Please RSVP."

I actually call a television a television, I call a compact fluorescent bulb a compact fluorescent bulb, and if I want a response, I write it in English:  Please respond.


Interestingly, we do the same thing in German with "PIN-Nummer", but it's "das HI-Virus".

I do admit to calling my ZIP code a zipcode.  Zone Improvement Plan code just sounds too clunky.  Also, I've never heard anyone say ZIP plan, so I guess I haven't soured on that one yet.

I have heard people refer to "DVD discs."  Ouch, but I admit that I call a DVD a DVD. 

Light-emitting diodes?  I call them light-emitting diodes.


Free gift is another favorite.  You have already mentioned but it was fresh on my mind since I heard it at the mall this morning.
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« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2015, 02:06:35 AM »


similar ideas for questions,
What is your favorite logical fallacy?
Your least favorite trite cliché?
The most annoying incorrect grammar or spelling errors?

Anyway, here are a few example to get us started:

Please RSVP = please please respond
The hoi polloi = the the people
Very unique = very one of a kind
Unexpected surprise
Difficult dilemma

Invited guests
Few in number
As for example
Plan ahead
Possibly might

Foreign imports
Forever and ever
Suddenly exploded
Free gift
Unintended mistake

(For extra credit find errors in my opening comments)

It is possible to have uninvited guests.
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All Along The Watchtower
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« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2015, 12:42:06 PM »

"Too blind to see."
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angus
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« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2015, 02:02:42 PM »

It is possible to have uninvited guests.

haha.  I've been that guy at many parties.  Sometimes it turns out well.

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