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#143655 06/08/05 07:52 PM
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I've never heard the word used in exactly that sense.

I've never looked up the definition, but I have used it an heard it used to mean that one falls back to a prior state.

"If I can't figure out an analytic (closed-form) solution, I'll revert to numerical methods."

"He tried to touch-type, but he continually reverted to using two fingers."

"Certain characteristics of some members of the mouse population reverted to atavistic forms."

I'm not sure these are correct, but that's the way I've seen it used.




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They all sound right to me, FF. Can't say I've heard it used much legally, but in everyday speech, your examples fit my experience.


#143657 06/08/05 10:17 PM
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Back is redundant.

You people act like redundancy were some sort of absolute evil. You don't complain about the phrase "three books" being redundant, or subject-verb agreement being redundant. No, that you like. Why is it all over sudden bad when someone says, "return back"?


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all over sudden
I would have said "all of a sudden". Is this a neologism, a regionalism or just a faldagism?


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Actual, I got it from Pogo. I have heard "all of the sudden" in the wild.


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I could never really make sense of all of a/the/over sudden, so I usually revert *back to suddenly, or make something up.



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Must...restrain...fist...of death...


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Jackie, don't start hitting Oliver Sudden!


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how come you didn't say to revert back stolen property to the original owner, or to revert stolen property back to the original owner ?

My guess, Jackie, is that he has found the muzzle-loading tautologer awkward and obtrusive. How come do you ask?


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> Must...restrain...fist...of death...

Just go lay down for a while, until you've reorientated yourself. You'll feel much better.


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