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Isn't "dead carcass" redundant?

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I heard a coworker use "killed dead" yesterday. I always thought he was I moran, now it is confirmed 🙂.
 
The most widely used redundant phrase and my personal pet peave:

deja vu all over again.

I want to bitch slap anyone who says it.
 
TridenT said:
Perknose said:
Yes, it is. So is "very unique," a term that is nevertheless in widespread use.
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Very unique could mean it is the more unique of things that are unique...

but I wouldn't expect you to know that. :whiste:
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Sweet Jesus, you are one fucking idiot. Sadly for this planet, not uniquely so:

Very unique
Unique means "one of a kind," so something cannot be very unique or quite unique. (It is possible, however, for something to be almost unique.) In such cases, use the word distinctive instead, e.g., "Barry Sanders' running style is quite distinctive."
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"Very unique" -- please kill me now
The Rule: Choose words that are exact, idiomatic and fresh. (Harbrace 20, Exactness)

When we write and speak, we must be aware of what words mean. The word "unique" comes from the Latin word "unus," meaning one. E pluribus unum means "out of many, one."

Unique means "being the only one, being without like or equal." A person or thing is either unique or not. You can't be "very unique." You hear it all the time, but this expression doesn't reflect the uniqueness of the word unique.

Another commonly cited word like this is "pregnant." A woman is either pregnant or she is not. She can't be "very pregnant." She can certainly be very far along in her pregnancy, but not "very pregnant."
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A Very Unique Error
April 4, 2008
languageandgrammar grammar English, grammar error, meaning of unique, very unique, writing 1 Comment

I recently heard a runway announcer (no, not the airport kind—the fashion kind) say that each model had her own very unique style.

Well, unique already means one of a kind, and putting very in front of it doesn’t make it any more one of a kind—but it does make it superfluous, not to mention grammatically incorrect.

There are two possibilities for this very unique problem: Either people are using unique to mean individual or rare, which it does not mean, or they’re trying to add emphasis to their feelings and descriptions by adding words such as very even when those words change what is right to what is wrong.

Unique means (sometimes I can’t find any other way than to just repeat myself) one of a kind—there aren’t any more like it anywhere else—if this one disappears, then it will be extinct—you can search and search all over the world, but you won’t find a second one—after they made this single one, they broke the mold and threw the pieces into 27 different trash cans so that no one would be able to make another one…. Oh, someone stop me.

Nothing is very unique. It’s either one of a kind or it isn’t.
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Perknose said:
I don't, but when some fool throws some at me and a bit lands on my shoes, I vigorously and publicly expunge it. 😉
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Even when you know your responses fuel his masturbation sessions? Now you're going to have something else on your shoes.
 
CPA said:
I know it is, but it still pisses me off.

You don't hear people say "when you come to a fork in the road, take it" which was also a Yogi Berra qoute. But for whatever reason people think deja vu all over again is correct grammar.
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The people I've heard say it, and there have been more than a few over the years . . . it was always my impression that each of them did so knowingly. <shrug>
 
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