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Old 26-Mar-2008, 11:11
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Default double dutch

if I say very excellent (in German it is called doppelt-gemopellt) or something like this.
is it called double dutch? I am not sure as double dutch is nonsense, which you do not understand. very excellent is understandable so it is not double dutch, is it?
if i say 2 words and 1 of them is clearly redundant-what is it?
thanks for help
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Default Re: double dutch

Double-dutch [which was a term originally used in England to mean German] is now use to mean gobbledegook - nonsense.

"very excellent" is a tautology - the unnecessary and usually unintentional use of two words to express one meaning
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