Rough Rhymes

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Just to start off, I present to you 20 words that I find redundant. Think about it.

1. Attached together. [How exactly are they attached if they were not together?]

2. Baby calf. [A calf is a baby. If a calf were to have a baby, I'd suggest you call up the vets]

3. Boiling hot. [Who the fuck taught you english?!]

4. Climb up. [Oh lord]

5. Crystal clear. [It is clear if it is crystal. Unless of course you forgot to clean it.]

6. Duplicate copy.

7. Elderly senior citizen. [Have you heard of a 16 year old senior citizen?]

8. Empty space.

9. Female daughter. [My aunt should be guilty of this. Though I feel that that she wasn't entirely wrong on this. Her second child is a MALE daughter. If you get the message.]

10. Free gift. [I've never heard of anyone who paid for their gifts. Have you?]

11. It's raining outside. [Where else would there be a rain? In your dining room?]

12. New & Improved. [We hear this in advertisements don't we? It's shameful when people in such high positions make such silly mistakes. Especially shampoo advertisements. If it's improved, it definitely can't be from the roman times. Take my word for it]

13. Newborn baby. [WTF?!?!]

14. Oral conversation.

15. P.I.N number. [P.I.N stands for Personal Identification Number]

16. Pair of twins. [Since when do twins come in the tens and twenties?]

17. Repeat again. [I used to have this english teacher back in secondary school who always threatened me with her infamous "Repeat again?!" whenever I talked back. When I questioned her once, on the word 'again' being redundant, she simply replied "That's American english". For all who were from my secondary school, it's our beloved, *cough*, Miss Bok that I am talking about.]

18. Tear apart.

19. Sharp point. [The only point that ain't sharp is a checkpoint]

20. Unmarried bachelor. [The minute I saw this word, I felt for all my brothers. Drifting away from the intended post, I was thinking of oxymorons when the word, 'single and married' got me a lil' worried. If you know what an oxymoron is, I think it's perfectly fine when you say "He's a married but single man." It happens. Really.]

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