Trivia 14 Totally Redundant and Tautological Place Names.

[Professora Akira]

A tautology is an expression or phrase that says the same thing twice, just in a different way. Differently said, it is an expression that has two or more parts that are redundant, or synonymous. Most often, a tautology is considered undesirable and a fault of style and is avoided at all costs in literary works. Common speech, though, is filled with redundancies and tautologies.


The names and expressions below are tautological in a different way. They’re unintentionally redundant. This happened because there is more than one language that goes into the name

1. Lake Tahoe​

Tahoe means “Lake” in the Native American Language.

2. Sahara Desert​

Sahara means “Desert” in Arabic.

3. Milky Way Galaxy​

Galaxy means “Milky” in Ancient Greek.

4. La Brea Tar Pits​

La Brea means “the tar” in Spanish.

5. Minnehaha Falls​

Minnehaha is the Dakota word for “Waterfall“.

6. El Camino Way​

El Camino means “The way” in Spanish.

7. Avenue Road​

Avenue means road= road,road

8. Street Road​

road=road

9. Mississippi River​

Mississippi means “big river” in Algonquian.

10. The Rock Of Gibraltar​

Gibraltar came from the Arabic Jabal Tariq, or “The Rock of Tariq“

11. East Timor​

Timor comes from the Indonesian/Malay timur, for east

12. The Los Altos Hills​

Los Altos means “the hills” in Spanish.

13. Rio Grande River​

Big river river

14. Mount Fujiyama​

Mount Fujiyama

Mount Fujiyama means mount mount Fuji because yama means mountain in Japanese.


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[Josuu]

I want to go to the tar tar pits through the way way after I go to the mount mount fuji of the east east

 

[Dismal]

Maraming salamat sa trivia. Thank you for this trivia.

 

[rexph]

Ako mismo ay nahihirapan nito Prof. I myself pala ang hirap..

 

[FluffyKitty]

confusing minsan at nakakalito rin yun paulit-ulit and repeatedly same meaning yung kasabihan ng words

 

[Josuu]

confusing minsan at nakakalito rin yun paulit-ulit and repeatedly same meaning yung kasabihan ng words

Asian cutie is that you well it's confusing kasi nakakalito, minsan sometimes di ko alam kasi I don't know kung ano naisip nila and what they're thinking

 

[FluffyKitty]

Asian cutie is that you well it's confusing kasi nakakalito, minsan sometimes di ko alam kasi I don't know kung ano naisip nila and what they're thinking

napasearch tuloy ako at napahanap kung the who at sino yung tinutukoy mo, now i know dahil alam ko na