Feb 23 2007
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.
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February 23rd, 2007 at 6:25 pm
“Machine” and “virus.” Yeah, that bothers the shit outa me too!
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:10 pm
See here, here and here. I hadn’t thought of HIV virus. I’ll have to add that to the list.
February 24th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
There are actually 3, not 2, which makes it worse.
PIN number
ATM machine
HIV virus
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
February 25th, 2007 at 2:09 am
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.
February 26th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Does anybody have a NIC card I can borrow? I think mine got hit by a power surge.