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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Criminal Sentence 112: Redundant Redundancies

Overheard on TV:

"It could potentially be very dangerous."

Do you think that maybe it might possibly perhaps be dangerous? Could it?

When you want to say that something might happen, you need only one of the following phrases per sentence:

could
may
might
perhaps
maybe
possibly

Otherwise, you might perhaps possibly be repeating yourself.

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