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#194832 - 12/10/10 08:26 PM Re: Pleonasm [Re: Faldage]
Candy Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/21/10 Posts: 1705 Loc: down under	Originally Posted By: Faldage There's also, e.g., an ATM card, so ATM has taken on a meaning beyond its literal expansion. correct...as has SCUBA.
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#194841 - 12/10/10 09:53 PM Re: Pleonasm [Re: tsuwm]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3271 Loc: R'lyeh	this is where Faldo steps in and proclaims "redundantism is your friend", or somesuch. Talk about a mantle of chopped liver invisibility. And what have I been on in this very same thread? _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#194847 - 12/11/10 04:45 AM Re: Pleonasm [Re: zmjezhd]
bexter addict Registered: 11/17/10 Posts: 677 Loc: Middle Earth	My favourite pleonasm has to be a place calle Haughurst Hill. A 'haugh', in Old English means 'hill' and 'hurst' means 'wood'. Therefore 'Haughurst' means 'wooded hill' or ' wood on a hill'. However, over time the residents have obviously forgotton this and renamed 'Haughurst' as 'Haughurst Hill' and thus it becomes 'wooded hill hill' or 'wood on a hill hill'. _________________________ ----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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#194850 - 12/11/10 06:43 AM Re: Pleonasm [Re: bexter]
Candy Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/21/10 Posts: 1705 Loc: down under	Have you sent that in for this weeks competition Bex...with picture, its sure to be a winner
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#194953 - 12/14/10 06:29 AM Re: Pleonasm [Re: Candy]
Candy Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/21/10 Posts: 1705 Loc: down under	WOW...900 entries (and mine didn't even get a mention) this was winner..... AWAD mail Mine in case you wondered was.... How people say baby then follow with the young of animal, ie baby cub (bear) baby foal (horse) or baby joey (kangaroo). Their name already describes them as being the young of the animal. Kylie Kwong is a popular Australian television chef, author and restaurateur and her recipe for Braised Moroccan-style Lamb Shanks calls for the use of 'baby lamb shanks'.
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#194956 - 12/14/10 07:10 AM Re: Pleonasm [Re: Candy]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3271 Loc: R'lyeh	baby cub (bear) baby foal (horse) or baby joey (kangaroo). Their name already describes them as being the young of the animal. Yes, but a baby lamb is younger than a lamb, just like a baby is younger than a youth. _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#194960 - 12/14/10 07:44 AM Re: Pleonasm [Re: Candy]
bexter addict Registered: 11/17/10 Posts: 677 Loc: Middle Earth	Originally Posted By: Candy Have you sent that in for this weeks competition Bex...with picture, its sure to be a winner No I didn't...I totally forgot about the competition! woops! _________________________ ----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----
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#194964 - 12/14/10 09:49 AM Re: Pleonasm [Re: bexter]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10472 Loc: this too shall pass	cross-threading alert from a bexter link in the acronyms thread: Some lexicographic wit coined a term for what’s happened to laser, radar, and their ilk: they’ve become anacronyms, a neologism that smooshes the sounds (and the meanings) of acronym and anachronism. The product of smooshing two words together, by the way, is a portmanteau. When an acronym becomes an anacronym, funny things can happen to it. For one, people sometimes start saying the acronym coupled with the verbalization of one of its constituent elements. Hence in ”SCSI interface,” the word ”interface” is completely redundant, because that’s what the ”I” is for.
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#194988 - 12/14/10 01:31 PM Re: Pleonasm [Re: tsuwm]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10472 Loc: this too shall pass	following up on myself, I see that anacronym actually has an OLI of seven(7).
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#194989 - 12/14/10 04:24 PM Re: Pleonasm [Re: tsuwm]
olly old hand Registered: 12/18/06 Posts: 933 Loc: Auckland, New Zealand	When an acronym becomes an anacronym, funny things can happen to it. They can suffer from RAS Syndrome
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