a'chael:
"Rise on your feet"
What do we rise on before, our hands?

Kurupt01: @ Op you're so right on point....

adconline: Nigerian passport or International passport? What makes it international if the holder, is Nigerian and has never used it to travel? I hear of UK passport, RSA passport, US passport but in Naija it's international passport

::Andrew:::
Eat food. what else can be eaten if not food?

A-ZeD:

I disagree with the bold part. Lets take the case of small minority.
The dictionary meaning of small is
1) Being below the average in size or magnitude.
2) Limited in importance or significance; trivial

The dictionary meaning of minority is
a)The smaller in number of two groups forming a whole.
b) A group or party having fewer than a controlling number of votes.


Having looked at the meaning of both words, we should be able to conclude that a group of people can be in the minority camp but they are not limited in importance or significance.
To buttress the point above, i'll use the presidential election as an example. GEJ cannot win the election in a two party system with a 51% of the valid vote count. In that case, those who voted for the opposition are a minority but they are in no way small because their number even though is less than those who voted for GEJ is significant to force a re run of the election.

Vivly: Well, some are use wrongly. Example is Buy your recharge card here. How can you buy what's yours

Wat if I say my recent /current experience with Vivly.

Vivly: If it's your current experience, then maybe you should stop sharing this now and go on experiencing your whatever.
P.S. What's the dictionary meaning of experience?

Vivly: .I wonder why they are liking that your post. Those are tautologies for christ's sake. Some are rightly used and others are blatantly abused. Why are you contradicting yourself Uyi, are you trying to debunk the facts, cuz in some instances, your post claims otherwise. Don't just argue for the sake of argument please.

Frown face. Seriously, is there any other thing we frown? Why not say frown alone.


Shrug one's shoulders Same thing for frown.

Dry lake.If a lake has dried up, it is no longer a lake.

Original copy A copy is not original. It is just a copy.

Emergency situation All occurences are situations. It's just an emergency.
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D sage:

Those phrases are not really a tautology considering the fact that some of them needs proper clarification when giving out instruction. Eg "past experience" experience is not limited to the past, it's of past,present and future. E.g, someone can ask " would you like to experience it"?

And how on earth would you says 4am is tautology? 4 indicates exact time,so how is that a tautology?

Please go and re-examine all what you called tautology.

DanWrites:

'Original copy' is not a tautology when you mean the printed edition of a book...like in, "I asked for the original copy of the article not this edited crap."

I think generally, the idea of whether or not to phrase a group of words as tautology hinges on the context of their use.

Akson man: "Over here in abroad."

Used mostly by Nairalanders based in Mushin or Okoko but trying to convince the rest of us that they are typing their comments from a foreign land.

Adeniyi A.:
clap your hand.
sit down.
rise up.
bend down.
reverse back.
climb up.

oche_ejemb:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_passport

Vivly: Maybe sandpaper

tinoblinx:

Wat if u Say, " I asked for the original article, not the edited copy.

lifehacker: this atheist again

Ezeed: Op, nice thread. Dont mind me though, i feel like looking for small trouble this evening, so pls grant me your audience.lol. Okay, regarding your title- 'common grammatical tautologies', the word 'tautology' already has the word 'grammatical' embedded in it. By reason of the aforementioned, your use of both the way you did is tautologous. Lol.
On a serious note though, what you guys think, cos i stand to be corrected, and I feel like engaging in an educative discuss right now.

factorial1: is she?

leavestory: another tautology!!!!!she is right or she is on point are the right phrase to use!!!!!nothing like right on point!!!that is very wrong

tinoblinx:


Pls, "4am in the morning" is as wrong as past experience. Check ur facts well. 4am means 4'o_clock in d morning, so y add morning again?
Experience is defined by its context, not prefix. My experience with my ex girlfriend was a memorable one. And I also wish to hav such experience in the future. Pls don't use "past experience" it is wrong

Vivly: I'm not.