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Welcome, Jazzy! Er--no, I don't believe I will ask!
Speaking of BS--that term is common here, too, Neighbor!
Though padding sounds much more refined.
Gosh, wonder what the world would be like if all padding
was gotten rid of. By my reckoning, good manners would
probably be included here. Could get problematical!
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There is a theory that apart from its function in making essays longer, padding does have a social function to play in maintaining relationships even if it doesn't actually contain information. Apes groom each other, we pad.
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>Speaking of BS--that term is common here, too, Neighbor!. Though padding sounds much more refined. This thread is getting me completely mixed-up. I thought that “padding” was the stuff that made my mattress comfortable and that “BS” was a powerful fertilizer!.  Juan Maria.
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< Apes groom each other, we pad.>
Well, Bingley, that's a new word for it!
When I was just a young fella, my English teacher (for homework) asked us to rewrite the fable of the north wind and the sun in AS MANY words as possible. Accustomed as I am (and was) to succinctness, I failed miserably!
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Padding also occurs every day in ordinary conversation, for instance at the end of a telephone conversation when both
parties deliberate for about five minutes on how nice it was talking to each other, when they'll speak again, whether
they'll speak again, aren't clouds nice etc. Let's try and cut this out - think how much time is wasted when we could be
talking about more interesting stuff!
Our lives are frittered away by detail....simplify, simplify - Henry Thoreau
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>superfluous verbiage
Is self-descriptive of a repetitive redundancy
TEd
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>>superfluous verbiage
>Is self-descriptive of a repetitive redundancy
what a tautologous supererogation...
ron obvious
Dept. of Pleonasm Dept.
New York, NY
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Tsuwm, is your vocabulary naturally so astronomically large, or do you use the OED
every time you make a post?
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t'would be more convenient to have online access to the OED, but that costs $550 dollar bucks per annum!
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You can trust me on this, Jazzy--he IS that smart!
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