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by Dr. Will S. Sert

DUPLICATE COPY:  Friday evenings after work, much of the staff of the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired likes to relax in the Fowler Lounge.  I'm often a designated driver, as my drink of choice is sarsaparilla.

As the imbibing progresses, we often let off steam with rude jokes about the habits of our patients, such as a common anal-compulsive habit in describing duplication with redundancy.

They may say duplicate copy, exact duplicate, exact replica, exactly identical, or exactly the same.  Just what part of copy, duplicate, replica, identical, and same implies that any subsequent item is different from the original?

Using Xerox copy as a generic term is illegal use of a registered trademark and therefore a different problem.

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