To: Still Thinking; Ryan Spock; TheMom; TChris; Xenalyte; Semper Vigilantis; georgiadevildog; ...
It’s a trend that hasn’t ceased to stop...Verbal mayhem ping! I just can't visualize "hasn't ceased to stop" at all, and it's too early to apply adult beverages to the situation.
26 posted on
03/25/2009 9:06:22 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
("I always expect the worst from the RATS and they always deliver." ~ rrrod)
To: Tax-chick
It’s a trend that hasn’t ceased to stop... Wow. Let's take this one apart, shall we, lol?
If the trend hasn't ceased, then it hasn't stopped. If it hasn't stopped, it's ongoing. So we have a trend in an ongoing stop.
So, it's stopped. Still. But, it might not always be. It's an ongoing thing.
To: Tax-chick; RegulatorCountry; TChris
A li'l something from the Department of Self-Defeating Quasi-Redundancy Department.
BTW, Could somebody give me a few really good examples of a tautology? I've always wanted to use that word correctly, and I've never been fully confident that I got it right.
31 posted on
03/25/2009 9:49:38 AM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
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