Department of Redundancy Department

I came across a redundancy, while reading, yesterday and it got me to thinking. (And we all know that no good ever comes of that!) It occurs to me that there are certain, commonly-used redundancies that drive me nuts, including;
ATM machine
6AM in the morning
PIN number

Grouchy grammarians unite! Which ones bug you as much as these bug me?

 

Ahhh... Another sufferer of RAS syndrome (Redundant Acronym Syndrome)

LCD Display
Laser light
VIN Number
GOP Party
ABM Missile
LAN Network
AC Current - DC Current
HIV Virus
PC Computer
UPC Code
Please RSVP
BASIC Code
% APR
CAD Design
ISBN Number
DOS Operating System
RAM Memory
ABS System
GMT Time
For those in the US military or with Govt IDs, you can relate: CAC card (Common Access Card)

 

This one ****es me off to no end when I hear it! lol

 

ATM machine and VIN number are what I hear most often. Drives me nuts.
How 'bout the announcer yelling, "It's a grand slam home run!"

You're right, it doesn't look right. I guess it goes along the lines of "a" Super Speed razor or "an" SS razor. You just gotta say what sounds right.

 

Along somewhat related lines, the use of modifiers (adjectives) with "unique" grates my ear. Either something is unique or it's not. There's no such thing as "very unique," "kinda unique," "super unique," etc.

 

It's not a redundancy, but confusing "then and than", "its and it's", "you're and your" and using "irregardless" (it's not a word, people) annoys me. Oh, and when addressing clergy, it's "the" Reverend. Just as "honorable" is not a title for a judge, "reverend" is not a title for clergy. Mr., Mrs., Father, Pastor, etc... are all titles. Not reverend.

EDIT In the olden days of yore the full clergy title was "the Reverend Mr. so and so" or "the Reverend Fr. so and so." I assume that "the Reverend Pastor so and so" and various other clergy titles were in usage then, too. Reverend, then, is an adjective.

Okay, I'm off my soapbox now.

 

I didn't know that. (Though being Jewish, I think this can be understood.)

 

At least in Catholic Circles, "Rev. Fr." for a Priest, whereas "Rev. Mr." is only for a Deacon.

 

There's the Subjective or Objective...misuse...That always drives me nuts......

And please forgive my over use of dots.......I copped that from Louis Armstrong......When he wrote his second auto-biography he had enough clout to lose the editor. They let him type it himself, and he spelled words the way he pronounced them and used dots the way a composer uses rests in music.......So when the reader reads it.....the flow is similar as when Louis spoke......

 

hot water heater

 

I once read an article in Smithsonian magazine (from which I expected better) referring to a "Jewish Rabbi".

 

I thought the capital of Iowa was an "I"?

 

You mean it's not?

 

I find the title of this thread highly redundant.

Who cares if they are redundant? I just hate acronyms. Many times, they are not time savers. Often you end up having to explain what an acronym is short for, which defeats the whole purpose of the acronym existing in the first place.

 

Depends where. In the military they are time savers We actually have a several thousand page MANUAL that lists our acronyms lol.

 

Game. Set. Match.

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Actually it isn't any better in industry or academia.

 

I thought the thread was going to be about this one! I leave "the" out and TSD doesn't work: "I was shopping at TSD store" sounds like "I was shopping at mall."

Some classic redundancies here! I don't like redundancies because the redundancies are redundant.

 

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