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09/01/2007 05:46:18
 
 
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Politics
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>>>She might say, "Is everybody here?" I or my brother might answer something like, "Unlikely, the room isn't very big, after all."
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>>>Or she'd say, "Well, I myself feel that....", and of course we'd have to ask, "As opposed to you, somebody else?"
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>>One of my favorites (not!) is "7 AM in the morning." That's as opposed to 7 AM in the evening?
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>>Tamar
>
>That one bugs me too, as does most expressions that tautologically use superfluous words more than are needed.
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>The song "Moonlight Shadow"P: " ... four AM in the morning / carried along by a moonlight shadow": if only she'd sung "four o'clock in the morning" which scans just as well.
>
>Incidentally, just as annoying is Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die":
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>"... in this ever-changing world in which we live in" uses "in which" to avoid putting the preposition at the end of the sentence ... then he up and puts it there anyway!

What about "repeat again"?
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