Superfluous words

Forward planning - is there any other sort?

New and improved - if something is new it's never existed before and therefore cannot be an improved version of its earlier incarnation. If it's improved it existed before in another form and therefore is not new.

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So the consensus of opinion is that a large proportion of absolutely essential added bonus words in close proximity that are exactly the same in joint collaboration is hardly a new innovation and leaves much to be desired at this moment in time?

This looks like a fun thread. Might I join in?


Hot Water Heater -- How in the world does one heat water that is already hot?

Cook stove -- No, I planned on cooking my meals in the refrigerator.

ISBN Number -- Think about it for a moment: What on Earth is an International Standard Book Number Number?

awkward stumbles

Sean D. Schaffer said:

This looks like a fun thread. Might I join in?


Hot Water Heater -- How in the world does one heat water that is already hot?


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I developed a personal acronym for this, after my brother made a crack about my using the term "hot water heater."

At the time, I thought he was being kind of a twit, since he'd come over for dinner and I greeted him at the door, harried, reporting we'd had a tough time because of a crisis with the water heater conking out.

But then I realized he was right, and immediately started finding cringe-worthy things in my writing.

Like this classic: "awkward stumble"

So when would you expect a stumble to be anything but awkward? Well, only if the stumbler were Fred Astaire, my brother agreed.

So now I think of these as "awkward stumbles"

Or for short, AS's

...or, simply "ASS"