naijaguy77:

Sorry but you are wrong on several counts. Language is about context, and English is no different.

1) Very Beginning is CORRECT. 2) Small Minority is CORRECT. Again6) Past Experiences is absolutely correct. 7) Old Adage is 100% correct. This one has nothing little to do with context. The word Adage is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "A proverb or short statement expressing a general truth." Nothing to do with how old the proverb or statement is. It may have been coined yesterday. So 'Old Adage' is an adage that is quite old, simple.

I shall leave it at this. Just remember, the English Language is a living Language, it keeps on changing. So quit quibbling over semantics and concern yourself with syntax.

See how you went for those tautologies that you could easily do justice to. Check the others listed and analyse.

homesteady: Uyi, it is still tautology!

Those phrases are not really a tautology considering the fact that some of them needs proper clarification when giving out instruction. Eg "past experience" experience is not limited to the past, it's of past,present and future. E.g, someone can ask " would you like to experience it"?

And how on earth would you says 4am is tautology? 4 indicates exact time,so how is that a tautology?

Please go and re-examine all what you called tautology.

oche_ejemb:

Safe Haven is an English expression, or a metaphor used to mean something semantically different from a physical haven, in that it could have nothing to be with being an actual haven. e.g the toilet can be seen as 'a safe haven' where you go to escape the harshness of the world while taking an epic poo, however, in realty your safe haven is not actually protecting you from anything, as a real 'haven' is intended to.

First time ever is yet another commonly used expression especially in spoken English. "This is the first time this year I've written such a long reply" this year vs "This is the first time (I've) ever written such a long reply".

In one way or another, is yet again, another English metaphor. Did you learn English the same way you learnt Maths?

Thanks bro, i remember that celiene dion song titled '' first time ever i saw your face''. I don't think any thing is wrong with that phrase.

I dey hear the smell!

ludot:

Prolonged usage of WRONG TAUTOLOGY ....*cough*cough*

Is there RIGHT TAUTOLOGY?

LMAO.

Vivly: 8.Live recording. Damn. All recordings are live. Music and celebrity section please.

9.Safe haven. Literature gurus, Is there such thing as unsafe haven? Havens are by their definitions safe places.

10.First time ever. It's either your first time or it isn't. Decide!

11.General public. This is the most common. All those news being addressed to the general public, unless you're treating certain members of the public as special, all members of the public are general.

12.In one way or another. If it's not true in one way, then it's not freaking true. How can something be true in both ways?

13.Exact same/ exactly the same. The word exact is redundant in this phrase

nice i must say, but i disagree with the 'first time ever' part

D sage:

Those phrases are not really a tautology considering the fact that some of them needs proper clarification when giving out instruction. Eg "past experience" experience is not limited to the past, it's of past,present and future. E.g, someone can ask " would you like to experience it"?

And how on earth would you says 4am is tautology? 4 indicates exact time,so how is that a tautology?

Please go and re-examine all what you called tautology.

So the sentence '4am in the morning' doesn't sound like one right?

@op I am a science student but from the little I learnt from English language class, there is literal speech n figurative speech. U can't understand a figurative speech from the meaning of the individual words but rather from a collective perspective... I stand to be corrected

Mubby4luv:
Later wen u kill someone u will plead tht it's an act ov god. Its because of ppl lyk u am over careful on da road

Simply the devil's work.

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Wat if I say my recent /current experience with Vivly[quote author=Vivly] If it's your current experience, then maybe you should stop sharing this now and go on experiencing your whatever.
P.S. What's the dictionary meaning of experience?

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NEXT WEEK TUESDAY ...

Which ever way we write it, remember it is not our language. Even the British still find it difficult to speak or write any of our language fluently.

Vivly: 8.Live recording. Damn. All recordings are live. Music and celebrity section please.

9.Safe haven. Literature gurus, Is there such thing as unsafe haven? Havens are by their definitions safe places.

10.First time ever. It's either your first time or it isn't. Decide!

11.General public. This is the most common. All those news being addressed to the general public, unless you're treating certain members of the public as special, all members of the public are general.

12.In one way or another. If it's not true in one way, then it's not freaking true. How can something be true in both ways?

13.Exact same/ exactly the same. The word exact is redundant in this phrase

ludot:

Prolonged usage of WRONG TAUTOLOGY ....*cough*cough*

Is there RIGHT TAUTOLOGY?

Overwhelmed with hilarity, a good indication that you are not a mediocrity.

Its simply TAUTOLOGY.

@A-ZeD.
Minority already suggest small. It's ok.
It doesn't matter how small.

Haven't read the whole thread, but did anyone mention my personal favourite - "Reverse back"

TV

fairari022:
Wat if I say my recent /current experience with Vivly.

If it's your current experience, then maybe you should stop sharing this now and go on experiencing your whatever.
P.S. What's the dictionary meaning of experience?

Follow follow

"u'll fall down"

Born again Christian. Although this one is used by large numbers of ignoramuses all over the media.
The day you accepted Christ you became a born again person and new creature. You are either a Christian or a born again person or you are not.

Clap your hand-Before will you clap our head?
Blink your eyes-Before will you Blink your stomach?
Sniff your nose-Before will sniff your tongue
Node your head-Before will you node your teeth
............etc

Vivly: In as much as some of the facts are incorrect, they are still tautologies. A deeper view, breakdown of the concepts will show this. Most of those facts are accepted as spoken english, maybe due to constant usage but it doesn't change the fact that it's a tautology

They're not saying you are 'TOTALLY" wrong,they are just saying that the usage of some of the 'so called tautologies' in some sentences are right!..



pulease dnt tell me it's either wrong or not ooooo...dat's y i Capitalised total ...lol

reverse back (2) another last chance

Cold icewater, return back

::Andrew:::


Common madam don't be that like that, am driving and typing.

u need to be charged for that! "TYPING WHILE DRIVING" dude!

Yeeeaa...If I speak am,come beat me

Nigerian passport or International passport? What makes it international if the holder, is Nigerian and has never used it to travel? I hear of UK passport, RSA passport, US passport but in Naija it's international passport

I forgot to add... "As faith would have it"
instead of "As fate would have it"

::Andrew:::
Pick 'your call', The call is already your's otherwise It won't come to you in the first place.

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Now you are just being silly.

If we'll b learning here, then let ASUU keep striking.
Learning mood.......

efe22: Born again Christian. Although this one is used by large numbers of ignoramuses all over the media.
The day you accepted Christ you became a born again person and new creature. You are either a Christian or a born again person or you are not.

You're wrong.
We've born again muslims, traditionalists e.t.c