Tautology

Adrian Bailey:
[nq:1]Saw it last week: "This information point is out of order due to a technical fault."[/nq]
Tautology? Hardly. If someone had crashed a car into it, would you call that a technical fault?

Mark Brader, Toronto > "My ambition is to see a saying of mine attributed (Email Removed) > to Dorothy Parker or Mark Twain." Joe Fineman

[nq:1]Adrian Bailey:[/nq]
[nq:2]Saw it last week: "This information point is out of order due to atechnical fault."[/nq]
[nq:1]Tautology? Hardly. If someone had crashed a car into it, would you call that a technical fault?[/nq]
LOL Seeing as it was in the middle of a room, that's an unlikely scenario. Try again.
Seriously, what's wrong with "Out of order"?
Adrian

[nq:2]Tautology? Hardly. If someone had crashed a car into it, would you call that a technical fault?[/nq]
[nq:1]LOL Seeing as it was in the middle of a room, that's an unlikely scenario. Try again.[/nq]
You might be surprised at how common it is for cars to crash into buildings. If you don't like a car, substitute the vehicle, animal, or object of your choice. Or it might not be wo

[nq:1]Adrian Bailey:[/nq]
[nq:2]Saw it last week: "This information point is out of order due to a technical fault."[/nq]
[nq:1]Tautology? Hardly. If someone had crashed a car into it, would you call that a technical fault?[/nq]
Yeah, and if every time you asked for information you got the reply "Look it up yourself", it would have been well out of order.
John Dean

Mark Brader filted:
[nq:2]LOL Seeing as it was in the middle of a room, that's an unlikely scenario. Try again.[/nq]
I gather from subsequent posts that "information point" is not someone's odd restatement of "data point"...at first I thought the original said something like "all the entries in this file are correctly sorted except this one, and we attribute that to a problem with the prog

[nq:1]Saw it last week: "This information point is out of order due to a technical fault."[/nq]
Was the chairman of the meeting a robot, by any chance?

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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[nq:2]verb (present) > verb (past) > other word (metal/color)[/nq]
[nq:1] > > > spelled > lead read > led read > lead red pronounced > leed reed > led red > led red > > > [/nq]
Not to mention leading, leading, reading, Reading. This is one of the worst messes in English spelling, and attempts to clean it up only make it worse. One may console onese

[nq:2] > > > spelled > lead read > led read ... reed > led red > led red > > > [/nq]
[nq:1]Not to mention leading, leading, reading, Reading. This is one of the worst messes in English spelling, and attempts to ... console oneself by imagining that the London printers who foisted it on us have been in **** for 300 years.[/nq]
You can lead a hoarse to pant but

[nq:2]Saw it last week: "This information point is out of order due to a technical fault."[/nq]
[nq:1]Was the chairman of the meeting a robot, by any chance?[/nq]
Invoking Rossum's Rules of Order?

john