Isn't "dead carcass" redundant?

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JujuFish

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The word is aquamarine. It derives from the Latin words for "sea" and "water." It is not redundant at all.
FWIW, "marina" is a Latin adjective meaning "of the sea" (or, as is more easily remembered by its English cognate, "marine"). "Mare" is the most often used word in Latin for sea. So "aqua marina" literally means water of the sea.

That was a nearly pointless clarification, but I don't care. :p
 

nanette1985

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FWIW, "marina" is a Latin adjective meaning "of the sea" (or, as is more easily remembered by its English cognate, "marine"). "Mare" is the most often used word in Latin for sea. So "aqua marina" literally means water of the sea.

That was a nearly pointless clarification, but I don't care. :p

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To be even more pointless, mare is the latin word for sea and -ine is the suffix meaning "of or from". aquamarine meaning sea water, as opposed to aqua -> fresh water. Or aqua vitae -> water of life, referring to alcohol.

The english word "marine" has a very slightly different connotation - but is remarkably similar to the latin word which is thousands of years old.
 

Jeff7

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"'Dead Meat' is fairly redundant. Once something is classified as meat, it rarely recovers."
 

Perknose

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"Frozen Tundra".

MotionMan

Only the substrata is permanently frozen. In "season", things grow in the tundra, which they couldn't if the topsoil were permanently frozen.
 

fire400

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don't call human bodies that in real life, it's very disrespectful, professionally.

the term is "old" anyway, over used by people that play death match video games.