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Unnecessary repeated use of different words that mean the same thing



El Sid

Well-known member
May 10, 2012
3,806
West Sussex
Seriously, this is in my earnest opinion, I think, a grave matter.

Nevertheless, however, it's all crap and I do not give a shit.
 














beorhthelm

A. Virgo, Football Genius
Jul 21, 2003
35,312
Were they the only two you spotted?

no they where not, i just wonder if they are deliberate or a oversite.
 


Goldstone1976

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Apr 30, 2013
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Herts
Double negatives don't never wind me up or perturb me in the slightest at all.
 














drew

Drew
Oct 3, 2006
23,067
Burgess Hill
The line between deliberate and intentional errors/mistakes and those that are unintended and accidental is becoming blurred and distorted!
 


dougdeep

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May 9, 2004
37,732
SUNNY SEAFORD
The line between deliberate and intentional errors/mistakes and those that are unintended and accidental is becoming blurred and distorted!

You could be right and possibly are.
 








FamilyGuy

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Jul 8, 2003
2,384
Crawley
I really get wound up by people who use the word "regularly" when they mean "frequently" .... especially when it is by otherwise intelligent people.

For example; recently on a TV post-match report a so-called expert said "Rooney regularly scores goals like that" ... which (it seems to me) would mean that at that time, in every match, in that position Rooney scores the same type of goal - which surely would be quite simple to defend?

Slightly off-topic I realise but it winds me up!!
 


Acker79

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Nov 15, 2008
31,865
Brighton
I really get wound up by people who use the word "regularly" when they mean "frequently" .... especially when it is by otherwise intelligent people.

For example; recently on a TV post-match report a so-called expert said "Rooney regularly scores goals like that" ... which (it seems to me) would mean that at that time, in every match, in that position Rooney scores the same type of goal - which surely would be quite simple to defend?

Slightly off-topic I realise but it winds me up!!

It might mean he scores a goal like that every 15 years. I think you should wait until 2029 before you criticise the report.
 


dazzer6666

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Mar 27, 2013
52,495
Burgess Hill
I really get wound up by people who use the word "regularly" when they mean "frequently" .... especially when it is by otherwise intelligent people.

For example; recently on a TV post-match report a so-called expert said "Rooney regularly scores goals like that" ... which (it seems to me) would mean that at that time, in every match, in that position Rooney scores the same type of goal - which surely would be quite simple to defend?

Slightly off-topic I realise but it winds me up!!

By 'expert' did you mean someone who has a sound working knowledge of football who is able to convey his views to the 'man in the street' such that they would be easily understood or a professor of English ?
 




seagullmouse

New member
Jan 3, 2011
676
Not sure I hear this one out of a snooker context very often but I love it when they say "betwixt and between", as if being betwixt is not bad enough, but between as well!!!
 


Kumquat

New member
Mar 2, 2009
4,459
Not sure I hear this one out of a snooker context very often but I love it when they say "betwixt and between", as if being betwixt is not bad enough, but between as well!!!

It's also an excellent and brilliant book by the former Algeria goalkeeper and writer/philosopher Albert Camus.
 


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