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That ain't redundancy, that's post padding! Nothing but post padding! Nothing else! No other thing! Only post padding! Nothing but redundant post padding!
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Inutil insegnà al mus, si piart timp, in plui si infastidìs la bestie.
Everything that ever was is a song that is sung into existence.
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When I posted this topic, I was afraid some might take it that way. My concern was that people would construe this thread as a post-padding scheme. Nonetheless, even though I considered the possibility of being labeled a post-padder, I decided to go through with it, despite my hesitations.
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That ain't redundancy, that's post padding! Nothing but post padding! Nothing else! No other thing! Only post padding! Nothing but redundant post padding!
What's post padding? I have heard about post padding. Is it related to christmas pudding?
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--- "There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan
"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it." - Marie Curie
Ive heard of black pudding, white pudding, chocolate pudding, steak and kidney pudding, rice pudding, Yorkshire pudding, Cheese pudding, corn pudding, Groaty pudding, bread and butter pudding, cabinet pudding, Carrot pudding, Cheshire pudding, cottage pudding, Indian pudding, fruit pudding, tapioca pudding, apple & barley pudding, never heard of Christmas pudding...
__________________ The velocity of light in vacuo is c, but c isn't just the velocity of light.
Inutil insegnà al mus, si piart timp, in plui si infastidìs la bestie.
Everything that ever was is a song that is sung into existence.
orbsycli.
redundant words - redundant prefixes - redundant suffixes - redundant letters - redundant syllables - most of the English language is redundant.
“irregardless”
Who is that word trying to fool? It stole another word’s definition and spelling - added a redundant prefix and thought nobody would notice. Yeah, we’re on to you!
“geometrical”
Dude, that geometric series is so geometrical man.
“electronical”
If I have an electric car, an electrical car, and an electronical car…. how many cars do I have exactly?
“thievery”
Did you see what thievery did? Thievery came along and STOLE theft’s definition!
Yeah, thievery is in the dictionary - suspiciously close to the word theft.
“truthfulness”
Truthfully - Is there true truthfulness in a truthful truth?
If truth is a noun,
and truthful is an adjective,
and truthfulness is a noun again,
is truthfulness-ful an adjective again?
Where does the insanity stop? We seriously need to stop adding bits and pieces to our words… because eventually they get written down in the dictionary and we’re all screwed.
- modest
PS - the only word that my spell checker didn’t like was electronical. I'm sure it will eventually be a common word.
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