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Word For The Day, Thursday, Rocktober 9, 2008 - tautology
dictionaries ad nauseum, internet | 9 October 2008 | secret garden

Posted on 10/09/2008 6:01:23 AM PDT by secret garden



In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

tautology, [taw-tol-uh-jee], noun
1. needless repetition of an idea, esp. in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.”
2. an instance of such repetition.
3. Logic. a. a compound propositional form all of whose instances are true, as “A or not A.”
b. an instance of such a form, as “This candidate will win or will not win.”

Example sentence:
Taranto's Best of the Web always includes News of the Tautological.

Etymology:
Origin: 1579, from L.L. tautologia "representation of the same thing" (c.350), from Gk. tautologia, from tautologos "repeating what has been said," from tauto "the same" + -logos "saying," related to legein "to say".

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....


Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!


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To: SoothingDave; Travis T. OJustice
they are trying to extract trav outta this big boy's belly right about now...


61 posted on 10/09/2008 10:05:19 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

TIKES! I’ve done some commercial diving, and had big fish scare the bejeezus out of me. I hate when that happens.


62 posted on 10/09/2008 10:22:45 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: xsmommy

Wanna feel old?

Last night at class the one girl forgot her workbook and the teacher reprimanded her with a “No soup for you!”

And she was dumbfounded. Turns out most of the students (6 of us last night) had no clue what that was.


63 posted on 10/09/2008 10:32:43 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: mikrofon

A for you! Happy belated birthday!


64 posted on 10/09/2008 10:50:15 AM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: secret garden
Repetition is the lifes blood of tautology and politics.

Say it often enough and the sheeple will follow.......BAAAAAAAA!

65 posted on 10/09/2008 11:40:55 AM PDT by thingumbob (McGenius-Palin beats O'bomber-Hide'n (Remember, dead terrorists don't make more terrorists!))
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To: SoothingDave

am i supposed to know the connotation? is it a SNL thing? am i TOO OLD to get it, TOO YOUNG, or just TOO HOPELESSLY OUT OF IT? ; )


66 posted on 10/09/2008 1:02:05 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: NeoCaveman
where is neo today? did he off himself in a depressed fit, please God, no? btw, i am heartened to read that VA is GETTING THIS RIGHT!

At Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, for instance, students who visited their local registration office last month were met with dire warnings from the Montgomery County registrar, Randall Wertz. Wertz issued official releases telling students that, by registering, "you have declared your independence from your parents and can no longer be claimed as a dependent on their income tax filings. ... If you have a scholarship attached to your former residence, you could lose this funding." Juanita Pitchford, the registrar for Fredericksburg, where the University of Mary Washington is located, requires that all students interview with her before registering so she can decide on a case-by-case basis whether they can vote. "The student must prove that it is their intent to be considered living in Fredericksburg," said Pitchford (who, in 2004, denied applications from all on-campus students), speaking to The Free Lance-Star. Recently, Pitchford said, "I speak to every student ... and I explain the full ramifications" of registering, including telling students that registering in Fredericksburg can jeopardize scholarships and tax dependency on their parents

67 posted on 10/09/2008 1:04:24 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden; Old Professer
i wanted to bring to the teacher's attention today, Old Professer's very excellent homework posted on a free-standing thread! Bravo to him!
68 posted on 10/09/2008 1:06:36 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden
this photo made me ROR!

Look at meghan mccain eyeballing brady quinn and you can practically see her lips moving to say, MOM, LOOK AT HIM! he's GORGEOUS! and cindy is saying, meghan, stop drooling....

69 posted on 10/09/2008 1:15:32 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

great pic and great comments - well done!

now if only my Browns would let him play on Sundays, we might win a game or two this season.........


70 posted on 10/09/2008 1:17:28 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: xsmommy

It’s an old Seinfeld episode of the nazi soup guy yelling “No Soup for You!” if he didn’t like your attitude or you weren’t properly deferential.


71 posted on 10/09/2008 1:19:08 PM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: nascarnation; DollyCali

i lifted the pic from dolly’s thread today at the rally. Dolly, doesn’t that pic make you laugh your head off? meghan mccain’s tongue is practically hanging out!! LMAO!


72 posted on 10/09/2008 1:19:24 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

“where is neo today?”

Financial meeting this morning,
Tried to get some work done in the afternoon,
Then watched the stock market melt down.


73 posted on 10/09/2008 1:21:56 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (Who is the real Barack Obama?)
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To: xsmommy

Who is the other guy? I’m just following the local team(Titans) and they are 5-0 for the first time in franchise history.


74 posted on 10/09/2008 1:22:48 PM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: NeoCaveman

when is it going to STOP melting?


75 posted on 10/09/2008 1:22:59 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

i had to go back to dolly’s thread to see, though i imagine neo and nascarnation know who it is. it’s Left Tackle Joe Thomas(Wisconsin).


76 posted on 10/09/2008 1:25:05 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

He is gorgeous & if you can believe the accounts in paper over the couple years he has been here ... well there is a multitude of drop dead goregous women seen on his arm here & there and about a year or so ago two women got in a brawl that attracted the police & arrests over him.

Even though I was right up there close I had a teleprompter & tall man (see head in middle) which dominated my photo work/challenge that day


77 posted on 10/09/2008 1:32:52 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: xsmommy

“when is it going to STOP melting?”

1. I do not know.

2. I do know that in the eerily similar panic of 1907, the market went down 50% from its prior high. That would be about 7200 or so give or take a few hundred.


78 posted on 10/09/2008 1:45:33 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (Who is the real Barack Obama?)
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To: NeoCaveman

Well we have to trust in God. Pope Benedict said not to build your house on sand. I am not jumping out of any building. We just have to work our way back, no matter how long it takes.


79 posted on 10/09/2008 2:31:59 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Apparently, you are hopelessly out of it.

The point was that kids today don’t understand references to to Seinfeld.


80 posted on 10/09/2008 5:26:14 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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