10-17-2007
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 Married man     Sponsor   | Department of Redundancy Department Inspired by the "Double positives and Double negatives" thread, I decided I needed to study redundancy as part of my educational needs.  It will be fun and I know everyone will enjoy it in a fun-like manner. It's not intended to be serious so any seriousness should not be intended.  But seriously, to make this thread applicable to linguistics (rather than the watercooler), I suggest that we create the most clever examples of redundancy and attempt to analyze the context and psycholinguistics that precipitate. This will help make the thread more applicable to linguistics. Why do we use redundancy and why is it used?  ---------------- Hypography Science Forums Moderator --- "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 | |
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10-17-2007
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 Resident Slayer  | Re: Department of Redundancy Department My 11th-grade English teacher (thank you Mrs. Vessey!) always beat me up for *not* restating. Tell them what you're going to say, then say it, then tell them what you've just told them. Turned out to be *essential* for being good at PR! Alfred Hitchcock said, "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." So if you watch his movies, he always tells you what he's going to do and then he does it (well, sometimes he doesn't, and *that's* suspense!). Imagine the shower scene in Psycho where you don't have all the "Norman's eye view" before the murder... There's great value in repetition! Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies,  Buffy ---------------- "If you do not agree with anything I say, I'll not only retract it, but deny under oath that I ever said it!" __________________________________________________ ______________-- Tom Lehrer "The shrinks diagnosed me a sociopath with paranoid delusions. But they’re just out to get me cause I threatened to kill them." Forum Administrator Hypography Science Forums - Science for Boys and Girls! Its not for nothing that we hang out here. | |
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10-18-2007
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| Married man Sponsor | Re: Department of Redundancy Department Quote:
---------------- Hypography Science Forums Moderator --- "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 | ||
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10-18-2007
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 Exhausted Gondolier |  Re: Department of Redundancy Department
Hate it! Just hate it! Absolutely hate it! I just really really really really hate it! ---------------- Who's afraid of the Big Black Hole????? Go Black Hole! W the Black Hole!  Hasta que el agujero negro nos traga, siempre! Hypography Forum PITA...... er, Administrator. | |||
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10-19-2007
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| Married man Sponsor | Re: Department of Redundancy Department But tell us how you really feel, Q? I think everyone would like a clarification. How do you feel about redundancy, specifically your feelings...about redundancy. Hate is relative, and relatively speaking, I hate hate. I wouldn't bring this up, but it bothers me. Hating hate seems arbitrary, and hate hating seems arbitrary, relatively speaking.  ---------------- Hypography Science Forums Moderator --- "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 | |
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10-25-2007
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| Exhausted Gondolier | Re: Department of Redundancy Department Quote:
---------------- Who's afraid of the Big Black Hole????? Go Black Hole! W the Black Hole! Hasta que el agujero negro nos traga, siempre! Hypography Forum PITA...... er, Administrator. | ||
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10-25-2007
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 Hypographer   | Re: Department of Redundancy Department I would perhaps argue that without redundancy, it might (perhaps) be difficult to argue that redundancy is important in order to state something more than once (instead of, say, twice), without making it clear that it is the redundancy itself that is helping you repeat yourself for the purpose of making something clear. ----------------  Your Friendly Neighborhood AdministratorWant to sponsor Hypography? Buy a print in our Fall 2008 Benefit Sale Join our Facebook group or follow us on Twitter Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. - Carl Sagan | |
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10-25-2007
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| Hypographer | Re: Department of Redundancy Department By the way, I would perhaps argue that without redundancy, it might (perhaps) be difficult to argue that redundancy is important in order to state something more than once (instead of, say, twice), without making it clear that it is the redundancy itself that is helping you repeat yourself for the purpose of making something clear. ---------------- Your Friendly Neighborhood AdministratorWant to sponsor Hypography? Buy a print in our Fall 2008 Benefit Sale Join our Facebook group or follow us on Twitter Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. - Carl Sagan | |
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