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Unexpected surprises and unintentional mistakes

unexpected surprise so again you can see right a surprise by definition is unexpected so you don't need to specify that it's an unexpected surprise an unintentional mistake mist...

Course: Cambridge language skillsSection: Avoiding redundancy in essaysSubtitles: en

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an

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unexpected surprise so again you can see

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right a surprise by definition is

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unexpected so you don't need to specify

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that it's an unexpected surprise an

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unintentional mistake mistakes are

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unintentional that's part of the

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definition of the word mistake they're

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unintentional so we don't need to

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specify it and to go down south or to go

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up

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north south is considered down right and

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North is considered up again many people

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say this many people say to go down

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south or to go up North but technically

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it's toogy and it's not necessary to

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specify both it's one or the other to go

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up to go down to go North to go south

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but altogether it's redundant and we

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often see examples of tautology when

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we're using abbreviations so we when we

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use letters to represent words because

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we may not know or we may forget what

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the last letter of the abbreviation is

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representing so for example when we say

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an ATM machine we're really saying

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machine twice because ATM stands for

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automated tele machine so it's like

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saying an automated tele machine machine

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also with my PIN number I've I've

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forgotten my PIN number pin is personal

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identification

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