Guilty as charged
Guilty as charged
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Google word of the day today is:
"pleonasm": the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea.
I will attemt to utilise the concepts implicit in the definition of this word as given above in both my personal and employment-based roles during the course of my diurnal activities on this current date.
M
"pleonasm": the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea.
I will attemt to utilise the concepts implicit in the definition of this word as given above in both my personal and employment-based roles during the course of my diurnal activities on this current date.
M
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Dr Michael F Platten





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How would the story end up?
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Isn't killed dead rather final. I am presuming in that locale he would also be stone cold frozen.
B.E.
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I think those redundancies are called tautologies. As in "reverse backwards, and then do a U-turn to face the other way".
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NozzleTwister
Houston, Texas
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(With apologies to "Yes Minister".)
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"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
Albert Einstein
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"Risk Management ..... is an iterative process consisting of steps, which, when undertaken in sequence, enable continual improvement in decision-making to be continued and the safe guarding of persons conducting the work and the environment."
From a company employing thousands, with offices in most continents.
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Rerig
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In addition to the run-on sentence structure and tons of unnecessary words ("persons conducting the work" instead of "workers" or "employees"), I especially enjoyed:
"... enable the continual improvement in decision-making to be continued..."
Sounds like something our managers would come up with.
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Some pithy views on pleonasm in http://h
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"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
Cheers,
CanuckMiner
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Director of Department of Redundancy Department Dircetor.
"DoDRDD"
This came about after I found a form for un-schedled time off. This form is used to schedule un-scheduled time off, 2 days in advance of the time off. "WHAT !??"
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A few years back I was reviewing a draft regarding a pump:
"Depending on the service, wear may be very slight offering the possibility of lives of years while on the other hand whereas is often the case in transportation applications, the solids size is large and concentrations high, it is not unusual to see component lives of several months."
I spent a few hours rewriting the whole thing....
Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
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What's worse, the ones I was dealing with. These were "translated" from Japanese into "English," but needed to be entirely redrafted.
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LewTam Inc.
Petrophysicist, Leading Hand, Natural Horseman, Prickle Farmer, Crack Shot, Venerable Yogi.