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Opposite of a Tautology ?
Any one know what such two opposing words together is called ?
Are there any others ?
Latin is forbidden here, but by grace of the admin I’d suggest contradictio in terminis.
Oxymoron.
« Think to myself »
Always puzzled me. You can’t think to a wardrobe, an elephant, or someone else. So surely the ‘to myself’ part is tautological?!?
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I would say that’s an idiom. It refers to a thought that you intend to keep to yourself rather than one to which you may give voice and share with others.
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A colleague of mine just used: ‘single individual’.
She’s an absolute star in spawning tautologies.
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Like, unmarried?
Koala does not mean bear. And koalas are most definitely not bears.
Gobi Desert
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Aren’t they related to drop bears? 
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What about Gummi bears 
Thanks, Winky. Every day’s a school day, eh? My cousins lived in Australia for a few years as did some friends but they never told me this! I shall have to have words!
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I had a lecturer once use the phrase ‘suburban suburb’. But strangely I knew exactly what he meant.
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I grew up in Dundee, Scotland. The city is based round an extinct volcano called the Law Hill. This is tautological because the derivation of Law is a mound in either Gaelic or Anglo Saxon.
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Eh ken.
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The lecture concerned was in Dundee by coincidence. I studied* at Duncan of Jordanstone. Great times
*loosest possible sense.
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My brother did Architecture there.
I’ve just finished reading ‘Tautology: the Book’. It’s a book about tautology.
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Question: do people exist having a double name, like Lee Lee or Gordon Gordon?
Neville Neville.
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Roger Roger.
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