'word' words

[Mark Mandel]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>  An even more impressive Class 2 redundancy is "collie dog puppy"
>  (6470 hits, some for "Border collie dog puppy").  So-called to
>  distinguish them from all those collie cat puppies and collie pig
>  puppies out there...

More impressive? Yes, "collie" and "puppy" both imply "dog", but you
can't remove either of them, because neither implies the other.
"Collie puppy" is as short as you can make it without losing
information. How is it more redundant?

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Mark Mandel

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