kiss ass.

How so?

I guess this is now kind of redundant now we have new faces?

redundant?

colloquial definition i imagine.

might as well vote while i'm here.

Redundant- not needed and it's not a colloquialism at all. Yay! I know a word Big3 doesn't :D

re⋅dun⋅dant   /rɪˈdʌndənt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ri-duhn-duhnt] Show IPA
–adjective 1. characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: a redundant style.


but as you'll notice from my mindless tantrum in the Picture gallery that I was dead ****ing on. I'm holding back in my arrogance. push me further you sons a bitchs...push me further!!!!!

The word has a slightly different connotation over here. It means "unnecessary repetition".

I know what I meant :D It also means to lose one's job so it's a word i'm used to in my head!

Like I said to JH, I think it has a different connotation in the UK. Over there for example they say someone has been made redundant when they are being downsized.

...you're a douche.

It's not simply losing your job thought right? Isn't it specifically losing your job because your position is being eliminated?

Basically:

You're sacked- your a worthless piece of crap for stealing from us- OUT!
You're being made redundant - there is literally no work left for you to do/the business has gone bankrupt.

Janszoon gets mah vote.

:laughing:

I chuckled.

Seems like that description better fits the term "obsolete". Redundancy, literally, only occurs when there is another of the same kind already doing the same job,
which only logically works if you're holding a position that someone else is already holding. Once you're fired, you're no longer redundant.

Your description of redundancy uses only a part of its definition.

But like someone said earlier, it could be a British thing. And Americans are definitely not innocent of using unfitting terms.. For example: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the British term for an elevator is a "lift". Makes sense. Americans, for some reason, refer to hitch-hiking as a "lift". Does not make sense.

Coreyallen2 is the shit

Obsolete=Redundant, here...amongst other things.
It certainly is a British thing...therefore correct and not "unfitting".

:) You asked for it.

I can't believe we're being lectured about our own language by people who can't pronounce the word 'aluminium' properly.

*cough* lieutenant *cough*

I am far too diplomatic to say what I really feel about having to justify the English language :(

its not our fault you left out a letter on the wiretap. unlike some people, we don't make up pronounciations on a whim...*cough*colonel*cough*

eh?

Pronounced (correctly and non of that lazy English nonsense) Lef-tenant.

Note the the prominent letter "F" in the spelling of the word "lieutenant".

I meant "unfitting" as a matter of perspective. Correctness, on the other hand, seems as though it should rely on actual definition. Or am I being redundant?
;)

Who says the "actual definition" is the American one? Like a lot of words, it has different usage in different parts of the world.

That is being facetious :D

Someone ask Urban how to pronounce facetious.

(I'm being facetious now)
;)

fuh-see-shus

I know. I was being facetious. :D

Figures.

:rofl:

Eddie Izzard is amazing.

Looks like we may have a clear winner. :D

Starts with a J....

the contest isn't over yet.

I'm going to make an epic comeback come 2010, just you watch.