Superb!
Why didn't I think of that?
(dragondrop, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 22:46, archived)

(a)Too much beer?
(b)Too little beer?
(c)Wrong sort of beer?

Well, it's obviously (b) (seeing as how (a) and (c) are tautologies) so go get some more...
( Boot, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 22:52, archived)

I had to look that word up...
tautologies
Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
An instance of such repetition.
Logic. An empty or vacuous statement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes it logically true whether the simpler statements are factually true or false; for example, the statement Either it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow.

I'm off to find some beer !
(dragondrop, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 23:04, archived)

i think the word 'pleonasm'
is better suited to the first sense - it's purpose built after all. the word 'tautology', in my humble opinion, ought to be kept for logical tautologies. i think it gets confusing otherwise.

here ends my suggested improvement to the english language #93758. thank you.
( freshlegs, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 23:11, archived)

cough..
Ok, I meant oxymoron. But the beer types faster than I can
( Boot, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 23:13, archived)

pleonasm - Word of the day !
That was Dictionary.com's "Word of the day" on Tuesday January 8, 2002 (are you on the voting panel?) click here.
(dragondrop, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 23:20, archived)

not
yet!
( freshlegs, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 23:44, archived)

See...
B3ta is educational as well!
( Boot, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 23:12, archived)