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Re:GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay by darkwater on Monday May 04, 2026 @07:19AM (#48007241)
Well, it's called "tautology" and it's a perfectly valid rhetorical device.
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Re:GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay by wazdra on Monday May 04, 2026 @07:34AM (#48007372)
A tautology is a sentence vacuously true. This is called a pleonasm.
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Re:GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay by gizajob on Monday May 04, 2026 @08:25AM (#48007825)
Was about to post the same thing. It is indeed the under-appreciated pleonasm rather than a tautology.
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Re:GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay by darkwater on Monday May 04, 2026 @09:03AM (#48008203)
Yes, mixed the two. Point stands though.
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