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"HIV Virus" Is Redundant

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Christopher

As an English teacher, I'm constantly on crusade against "PIN number", "TOEFL test" (the latter bit of idiocy is committed by teachers and even in textbooks all the time) and other such redundancies. Now there's a new one for the list. But these things correspond to our nature. "I entered my PIN" just doesn't sound satisfying for some reason. "I'm taking the TOEFL next week", likewise. It's ironic; we abbreviate things down to a minimum and then find that it doesn't suit the rhythms of our actual speech. I think I can see where people would say "HIV virus." "The virus that causes HIV is...." comes out just too naturally (rather than "the virus that causes AIDS...."

July 13, 2009

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