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Not so much a serious question as a cynical misanthropic diatribe. Such fatuous, knee-jerk constructions appear to be a quest for syllables to suit the long-winded. They run in a similar pack with 'orientate' and 'irregardless', for spouters of blather geysers that cannot be content to speak any short term such as ATM or PIN.



PIN can be ambiguous so the redundancy inherent in PIN number can aid communication.

You can say what you want about orientate but the fact remains that orient is a verbed noun and orientate isn't.

Last edited by Faldage; 04/28/06 09:31 PM.