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[challenge entry] Marvin went onto bigger and better things

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(smack, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 22:07, archived)
# THat gets the first
(dragondrop, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 22:13, archived)
# I agree...


(I helped save b3ta! Boot I want to know what you meant, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 22:38, archived)
# 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...

(I helped save b3ta! Boot I want to know what you meant, 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.
(I helped save b3ta! freshlegs, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 23:11, archived)
# cough..
Ok, I meant oxymoron. But the beer types faster than I can
(I helped save b3ta! Boot I want to know what you meant, 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!
(I helped save b3ta! freshlegs, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 23:44, archived)
# See...
B3ta is educational as well!
(I helped save b3ta! Boot I want to know what you meant, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 23:12, archived)
# b3tans seem to like him
which is indubitably a good thing. woo!
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Sat 26 Oct 2002, 22:23, archived)