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Redundant redundancies?

Post by Rum » Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:35 am

Copied from a friend's blog. Here are some things to do with saying things twice when you don't need to.


ABS (anti-lock braking system) system.
ATM (automatic teller machine) machine.
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) virus.
LCD (liquid crystal display) display.
PIN (personal identification number) number.
SAM (surface-to-air missile) missile.
SAT (standard attainment test) test.
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Re: Redundant redundancies?

Post by Hermit » Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:52 am

GPS system
GST tax
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Re: Redundant redundancies?

Post by JimC » Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:07 am

Hermit wrote:GPS system
GST tax
:whisper: I think that is GPS satellite...
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Re: Redundant redundancies?

Post by Hermit » Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:22 am

JimC wrote:
Hermit wrote:GPS system
GST tax
:whisper: I think that is GPS satellite...
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/GPS ;)
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Re: Redundant redundancies?

Post by rachelbean » Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:55 am

How about this:
PHP stands for: Hypertext Preprocessor, which is a recursive backronym.
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Re: Redundant redundancies?

Post by laklak » Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:08 pm

Might be an Americanism, but "hot water heater" always irritates me. Why would you need to heat hot water?
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Re: Redundant redundancies?

Post by Sean Hayden » Mon Oct 26, 2015 3:22 am

To make it more hotter, or hotter still? :dunno:
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Re: Redundant redundancies?

Post by JimC » Mon Oct 26, 2015 3:42 am

It should be called "A Device to Increase the Average Kinetic Energy of Particles of H2O"
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Re: Redundant redundancies?

Post by laklak » Mon Oct 26, 2015 3:50 am

Dihydrogen Monoxide Molecular Agitator.
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Re: Redundant redundancies?

Post by JimC » Mon Oct 26, 2015 4:08 am

All agitators are marxists! :lay:
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Re: Redundant redundancies?

Post by rainbow » Mon Oct 26, 2015 8:54 am

laklak wrote:Might be an Americanism, but "hot water heater" always irritates me. Why would you need to heat hot water?
To make it even hotter :doh:
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:53 pm

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Re: Redundant redundancies?

Post by pErvinalia » Fri Dec 11, 2015 6:15 pm

rachelbean wrote:How about this:
PHP stands for: Hypertext Preprocessor, which is a recursive backronym.
I don't know what that means. But GNU is the most famous recursive acronym in computing. GNU's Not Unix.
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