Department of Redundancy Department

[chomiji]

And can anyone tell me what "RSVP" stands for? And why I am removing the "please" that everyone keeps inserting before it on the official invitations to events like retirement celebrations?

I am sure that someone is going to call me sometime and ask why I am making the online versions of the invitations less polite. But people, c'mon! It means

Répondez s'il-vous-plaît   (= "Please respond" in French)

And I don't want "Please respond if you please" on my (OK, our) intranet site, thankyouverymuch.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled non-nitpicky life.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

"La brea" means "the tar" in Spanish. There is a very famous location in Los Angeles called "The La Brea Tar Pits," or, "The the tar tar pits."

Similar to a park in Santa Barbara which was endowed by a woman named Alice Keck Park, and so is officially the Alice Keck Park Park.

[chomiji]

Ahh, I love the icon! My Princess Bride calendar is right here on my office wall, and Inigo is my very favorite character. I have a T-shirt with that line on it, too.

The La Brea example is a very close match to the RSVP silliness. But the other one is actually sort of the inverse ... see, "Park" is what my husband the engineer would call an "overloaded operator" - the words are homonyms and homographs but they don't actually mean the same thing.

So in one case we have two different words that mean the same thing, and in the other we have a single word that means two different things. And I'm finding the juxtaposition of the two ideas rather fun.

[(Anonymous)]

I also lvoe this icon. inconceivable!

one is reminded of The Los Angeles Angels...