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Why are you all focused on the tautologies on my first post. I'm yet to see anyone who would disprove these ones. Oh Wait, it's obvious. These are tautologies.

Baybe: ...it's not cool

You see what you haff caused now abi . I saw that her logic as cool I swear.

tpia@:
madam, the op has a keyboard and can type for himself, are you hoping to date him or something?

its not by force to comment, i stated my opinion, if you have a problem with it then why not log off the internet since you dont believe in freedom of speech?

must i heewaw like a donkey because the rest of you are doing so?

i cant stand arrogant people, please stay in your lane if you have an ego.

what rubbish.

Lord have mercy. Tpia, I like you. No homo.

Uyi Iredia: .

I just saw one of your posts and honestly, you have no right to say I'm being pedantic. Goodnight!

Uyi Iredia: Pained ?! Vivly honey, if that helps you sleep better tonight, so be it. I am not pained, more like, QUITE pissed at your needless pedantry as like-minded persons here have adviced.

Whatever takes you through the night.

Good. Leave him alone. It's his money and his girlfriend.

Uyi Iredia: @ bolded: Then you have a VERY BROKE, BEGGARLY and BLANK basis to begin to correct others tautologies. Please remove the speck in your eye before undertaking the surely Herculean task of schooling others out of tautologies. And spell 'grammar' flawlessly whilst you are it, insufferable Missus I-Sabi-Pass.

You sound pained? Go to the first page and read my first post

Who is kingsley?

Are you kingsley?

aManFromMars: Why u dey vex?

I no dey vex o

Slim or fat girls
tall or short girls
busty or assy girls
sensible or shapely girls
which do you prefer.
Una no dey tire for this kind questions?

Uyi Iredia: @ underlined: Thank you. Even Vivly couldn't escape from the sin of tautology. A tautology is obviously grammatical. Talk about a teacher teaching her students nonsense.

Teaching who nonsense? You're the only one here grouping all tautologies as wrong grammer. I know my topic is a tautology.

Btw, while you were trying to debunk my logic, you forgot others that were plain obvious. Why? Contradictory? Talk about picking the easy one.

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

Tell them

factorial1: is she?

I'm not.

Today's modern technology It's either today or modern.

I also like it, too it's either you use also or too.

N100 naira. why put the sign if you'll still go ahead to say naira.

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.

Rather, use smaller minority. It shows there is a larger one. Not small minority.

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

Maybe sandpaper

fairari022:
Wat if I say my recent /current experience with 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?

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.

So the sentence '4am in the morning' doesn't sound like one right?

naijaguy77: Sorry but you are wrong on several counts. Language is about context, and English is no different.

1) Very Beginning is CORRECT. 2) Small Minority is CORRECT. Again6) Past Experiences is absolutely correct. 7) Old Adage is 100% correct. This one has nothing little to do with context. The word Adage is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "A proverb or short statement expressing a general truth." Nothing to do with how old the proverb or statement is. It may have been coined yesterday. So 'Old Adage' is an adage that is quite old, simple.

I shall leave it at this. Just remember, the English Language is a living Language, it keeps on changing. So quit quibbling over semantics and concern yourself with syntax.

See how you went for those tautologies that you could easily do justice to. Check the others listed and analyse.

Samelle: Vivly, while I do agree with some of your observations, I have to add that some phrases are found that way in the English Language and are so for emphasis. Others have remained unchanged because of prolonged usage and have thus been accepted.

Prolonged usage of wrong tautology doesn't make it right. How can someone say or else? 'Shut up or else I'll beat you'. It's either it's 'or' or 'else'

Baybe: ...it's not cool

it is you that sabi o

freecocoa: Thing is, is that you made it sound like bad grammar or wrong usage whereas some are not.

Context matter a lot in english language my dear.

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

Yahoo1: now here is a guy that paid attention to Literature! Vivly take note.

In as much as some of the facts are incorrect, they are still tautologies. A deeper view, breakdown of the concepts will show this. Most of those facts are accepted as spoken english, maybe due to constant usage but it doesn't change the fact that it's a tautology

tpia@:
A man with kids is wandering around partying at 12 midnight?

I pity the children, unbroken broken home, o ma se o.

They will grow up to treat their wives the same way, such a pity.

You always see things from a different angle. Some times, it's cool. Other times,

oche_ejemb: In my opinion, I think that it is ludicrous for you accuse anyone of being a know-it-all.
Even more ludicrous, is that you consider someone politely expressing their opinion as bad English

I did not say it's bad English. I said that they are tautologies.

You all trying to dispute the facts based on claims that some of the adverbs were used for emphasis should try to check the dictionary meaning of the words. Why the unnecessary repitition? .

Donalð Genes: Notice this, some Nairalanders perhaps are fond of using this catch phrase especially the yorubas and Igbos during their e-fighting,name-calling and bashing of one another in the political section nine out of ten

''40,killed by Boko Haram attack, and some few army soldiers as well''

Now, can you spot the grammatical gaffe within the context of the above example?

Thank you. 'some few'. You are also observant.

Free gifts Were gifts meant to paid for?
Plan ahead All plans extend into the future. The word ahead is redundant. Lose it!

Unique individual All individuals are unique. They're individuals.

If you've seen one, you've seen them all. Actually, if you've seen one, you've seen one. If you've seen all, you've seen all.

Young boy Are there old boys?

Frozen ice Please, tell me why it's called ice

Uyi Iredia: .

.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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