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Someone already mentioned very unique. Unnique can be modified, but not intensified. Somehing may be nearly unique or truly unique, but nothing that is truly unique is any more unique than any other thing that is truly unique. There's one and only one of each.
What gets me is redundancies: close proximity (or, better yet, near to close proximity), revert back, approach towards, cash money.
Even worse is the redundant acronym: ATM Machine, PIN Number, 8 AM in the morning, and the ever popular RSVP, please. If you don't know what the acronym means, just call it what it is, and autoteller, an id number, or 8 in the morning, and, for the love of Dog and all that is Hairy, don't use acronymns in foreign languages. RSVP = respondez sil vous plait = reply please.
Feh is fine, so is nu. Don't mess with yiddish. Funniest sounding lanuguage ever.
On the flip side, there are things about correct English grammar (actually, more spelling than grammar) that really smack my package.
More than one ox are oxen. More than one fox, foxen? No foxes.
More than one goose are geese. More than one moose, meese? Nope, still moose.
One deer and two deer are the same, but try and convince the guy who pulled you over that the same applies to beer.
Index - Indicies. Matrix - Matricies. Codex - Codecies. But Kleenex - Kleenicies? They look at me like I'm mad. Xerox - Xerocies? That's a trick - it's xeroxen,
Swim, Swam, Swum. Present, Past, Past Participle. Not sting, stang, stung.
Drive, Drove, Driven. Not Dive, Dove, Diven.
The list is myriad. I am going to boldly split that infinitive whenever I want. And any time I want, I'll leave that participle dangling
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