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What about redundant words?

#9443 11/20/00 11:44 AM

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shanks

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shanks

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Joined: Mar 2000

Posts: 1,004
London, UK

It seems to me that there are some words that, being redundant in context, achieve meaninglessness (or have it thrust upon them?)

For instance, I find a number of people in the UK using the phrase "my work colleagues". I have never understood why the word 'work' has to be in there, since 'colleague' implicitly carries that meaning anyway.

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this is a mystery to me...can you all help me? emanuela 11/11/00 04:40 PM

Re: this is a mystery to me...can you all help me? xara 11/11/00 08:52 PM

Re: this is a mystery to me...can you all help me? maverick 11/12/00 06:16 PM

Re: this is a mystery to me...can you all help me? Max Quordlepleen 11/12/00 07:03 PM

Meaningful ? FishonaBike 11/14/00 11:36 AM

meaning what? wsieber 11/14/00 12:13 PM

Re: meaning what? maverick 11/14/00 12:46 PM

Re: meaning what? shanks 11/14/00 01:09 PM

Re: meaning what? FishonaBike 11/14/00 02:30 PM

Re: meaning what? maverick 11/14/00 05:16 PM

Re: meaning what? wsieber 11/15/00 08:40 AM

Are you a Searle fan? shanks 11/14/00 12:33 PM

Re: Are you a Searle fan? FishonaBike 11/14/00 02:12 PM

Re: paradox and guildenstern tsuwm 11/14/00 02:40 PM

Consciousness philosophy 101 shanks 11/15/00 01:31 PM

Re: Are you a Searle fan? belMarduk 11/14/00 11:15 PM

Re: Are you a Searle fan? Bingley 11/15/00 05:14 AM

Searle's Chinese Room shanks 11/15/00 08:12 AM

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Re: Searle's Chinese Room Max Quordlepleen 11/15/00 11:30 PM

Re: Searle's Chinese Room FishonaBike 11/16/00 10:33 AM

Re: Searle's Chinese Room shanks 11/16/00 11:02 AM

Matrices FishonaBike 11/17/00 05:26 PM

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My lord... shanks 11/16/00 10:10 AM

Re: My lord... FishonaBike 11/16/00 10:28 AM

Re: My lord... Bingley 11/17/00 04:33 AM

Chuckle... shanks 11/17/00 08:21 AM

Re: Chuckle... Bingley 11/24/00 06:24 AM

Can't top that shanks 11/24/00 08:14 AM

Re: Can't top that Bingley 11/24/00 09:35 AM

Re: Can't top that shanks 11/24/00 10:11 AM

Apologies for Fodor mis-reference shanks 11/15/00 01:22 PM

Re: this is a mystery to me...can you all help me? shanks 11/14/00 12:35 PM

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Paradox emanuela 11/13/00 06:33 AM

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Re: Paradox (not a paradox at all, logically) Faldage 12/05/00 02:01 PM

Re: context tsuwm 12/05/00 02:23 PM

Re: context Faldage 12/05/00 02:35 PM

Thanks for that, but... shanks 12/05/00 02:37 PM

Paradox Regained Faldage 12/05/00 03:04 PM

Hmmm.... philosophy again? shanks 12/05/00 03:39 PM

Re: Hmmm.... philosophy again? Faldage 12/05/00 04:13 PM

The barber of DeVille TEd Remington 12/05/00 03:46 PM

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Re: this is a mystery to me...can you all help me? Bingley 11/13/00 07:28 AM

Re: this is a mystery to me...can you all help me? shanks 11/13/00 10:57 AM

Re: this is a mystery to me...can you all help me? Bobyoungbalt 11/29/00 05:23 PM

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Re: this is a mystery to me...can you all help me? FishonaBike 11/30/00 01:54 PM

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Re: Meaningless Words Bobyoungbalt 12/07/00 03:18 PM

What about redundant words? shanks 11/20/00 11:44 AM

Re: What about redundant words? wsieber 11/20/00 12:08 PM

Bother shanks 11/20/00 02:32 PM

Re: Bother maverick 11/20/00 05:09 PM

Re: Bother Max Quordlepleen 11/20/00 07:27 PM

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Re: Meaningless Words FishonaBike 11/30/00 01:45 PM

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