ink-pen

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

My thanks to Michael McKernan for his reply below, which I now share with
ads-l. His point is well made, and yet if someone says he's writing with an ink-pen, "ink" here is not really needed for clarification.

Gerald Cohen

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> From:         Michael McKernan
> Sent:         Saturday, November 13, 2004 2:58 PM
> To:   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
> Subject:      Re: Redundancy--(in defense of "South Yugoslavia")
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> Gerald Cohen wrote:
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> >Another of his favorite redundancies was "an ink pen."
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> Well, in a rural area, someone might occasionally feel a need to distinguish this item from a 'hog pen' or a 'sheep pen', etc., and urbanites might even know of that very human form of pen, the still common 'play pen'.
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> Michael McKernan, Ph.D.
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