Linguistic Anomaly

One of my wife’s favorite language pet peeves demonstrated twice in the same sentence:

NEVER ENTER YOUR PIN NUMBER AT AN ATM MACHINE. YOU MIGHT GET THE HIV VIRUS.

via Wizbang

[tags]grammar[/tags]

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  • Patrick

    “Machine” and “virus.” Yeah, that bothers the shit outa me too!

  • http://jeffandcarol.com/jeff Jeff

    See here, here and here. I hadn’t thought of HIV virus. I’ll have to add that to the list.

  • Belf!!!

    There are actually 3, not 2, which makes it worse.

    PIN number
    ATM machine
    HIV virus

    Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  • Joe

    IBM Machines
    NIV Version
    Hot water heater
    Even better than those, at my undergrad university, the new multi-million dollar building was simply called the “Academic Building” and lots of morons called it the AB Building. But then they decided to build a second Academic Building, and my brother heard a tour guide call it the Second AB Building 2.

    Join the fight against pleonasms.

  • http://spencer.sokols.us/ Spencer

    Does anybody have a NIC card I can borrow? I think mine got hit by a power surge.

  • Patrick

    “Machine” and “virus.” Yeah, that bothers the shit outa me too!

  • http://jeffandcarol.com/jeff Jeff

    See here, here and here. I hadn’t thought of HIV virus. I’ll have to add that to the list.

  • Belf!!!

    There are actually 3, not 2, which makes it worse.

    PIN number
    ATM machine
    HIV virus

    Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  • Joe

    IBM Machines
    NIV Version
    Hot water heater
    Even better than those, at my undergrad university, the new multi-million dollar building was simply called the “Academic Building” and lots of morons called it the AB Building. But then they decided to build a second Academic Building, and my brother heard a tour guide call it the Second AB Building 2.

    Join the fight against pleonasms.

  • http://spencer.sokols.us/ Spencer

    Does anybody have a NIC card I can borrow? I think mine got hit by a power surge.