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Deparatment of Redundancy Department

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CLS said:
I feel differently than duper. "Ten RBI" sounds awkward to me. It comes across to me as baseball announcers pompously trying to sound like they use proper English, when in fact sports announcers are among the worst grammar butchers alive.
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Agreed. Sports guys are famous for trying to come up with a three dollar word with a wooden nickel brain.
 
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Where I worked there was an often-used abbreviation TTCP which stands for "The Technical Cooperation Program". People invariably said "the TTCP" duplicating the word "the". Of course, the problem here was the stupidity of including the first T in the abbrevation.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Where I work there was an often-used abbreviation TTCP which stands for "The Technical Cooperation Program". People invariably said "the TTCP" duplicating the word "the". Of course, the problem here was the stupidity of including the first T in the abbrevation.
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How about the [insert location here]ARC club meetings. ARC in this case standing for Amateur Radio Club or Amateur Repeater Club. (not that other thing, although given today's clientèle, it might as well be :eek: )
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Where I work there was an often-used abbreviation TTCP which stands for "The Technical Cooperation Program". People invariably said "the TTCP" duplicating the word "the". Of course, the problem here was the stupidity of including the first T in the abbrevation.
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The first time I heard the phrase "The MIT" it sounded odd to me, and it still does. People tend to insert a "the" into the acronym even though it isn't there.
 
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This isn't exactly a redundancy, but I find it annoying. The use of the phrase: "in the process of." It is a cliche, designed to give the most ordinary activities a patina of importance. "I'm in the process of zipping my fly." In much the same way, quite some time ago, college sports teams became "programs," which sounds much more important. "The Ohio State tiddliewinks program." I've given up on "program," but will continue to point out that "in the process of" is pretty close to the most over-used, least informative, least necessary phrases in contemporary usage. It is a verbal booger.
 
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Pre-warn.

I haven't heard it much since it tried to become cutting-edge corporate-ese in the late 90's, but it still sticks out.
 
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TV spot for law firm advises "you may be eligible for financial compensation."

References to: Paris, France. Moscow, Russia. Tokyo, Japan, etc. If you're talking about Tokyo, Mississippi fine, but Tokyo unmodified refers to the city in Japan.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Where I worked there was an often-used abbreviation TTCP which stands for "The Technical Cooperation Program". People invariably said "the TTCP" duplicating the word "the". Of course, the problem here was the stupidity of including the first T in the abbrevation.
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In a similar vein, has "the tOSU" ever been used? ;)
 
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Old Pio said:
TV spot for law firm advises "you may be eligible for financial compensation."

References to: Paris, France. Moscow, Russia. Tokyo, Japan, etc. If you're talking about Tokyo, Mississippi fine, but Tokyo unmodified refers to the city in Japan.
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In Mississippi, though, perhaps Tokyo unmodified refers to Tokyo MS. You've just trained yourself to think that Tokyo means Japan. When I hear Amsterdam, I think Amsterdam NY.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
In Mississippi, though, perhaps Tokyo unmodified refers to Tokyo MS. You've just trained yourself to think that Tokyo means Japan. When I hear Amsterdam, I think Amsterdam NY.
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On a similar note when I hear Cairo I think Cairo, IL (about 1-1.5 hours due south of me right now). In Indiana there are towns called Peru, Brazil and Mexico. Brazil was farther away and Mexico was small, but if someone told me they were going to Peru, I thought of the town and not the country, since it was again about an hour or so away.
 
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Proud2baLaker said:
On a similar note when I hear Cairo I think Cairo, IL (about 1-1.5 hours due south of me right now). In Indiana there are towns called Peru, Brazil and Mexico. Brazil was farther away and Mexico was small, but if someone told me they were going to Peru, I thought of the town and not the country, since it was again about an hour or so away.
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Mexico NY isn't too far away from me. Peru NY isn't too far from Plattsburgh. It's only about a 1-1.5 hour drive to Poland NY from here.
 
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I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but what about people that say "$2 billion dollars"...
 
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