Redundant Adjectives

An adjective is redundant when the noun after it conveys the meaning of the adjective. For example, I once saw an ambulance car labeled “Fast Ambulance” in red; how redundant the adjective “fast” is here? What is the use of an ambulance if it is not fast? Somebody please tell me.

Here are other examples where I, usually, find the adjective redundant:
Fragile glass
Loving mother
Horrible crime
Loyal friend
Small point
Hot summer (not globally redundant)
Lethal weapon
Sweet candy
Cute young woman (All the ladies that I know personally are cute and young, right?)

Even though an adjective maybe redundant, its presence emphasizes and decorates the meaning of a noun, I guess that is why one gets tempted to overuse adjectives.

Is the adjective “false” in “false perception” always somehow redundant? I hope it is not.
Do you think of other examples? Please let me know.

Five Random Things About Myself

First, I want to thank GrayFox for being the first to tag me on his blog, and I want to thank Hasan for explaining to me this tradition and for tagging me too.

I've been tagged to write five things about myself, so my dear reader get ready for some royal blue narcissism. Here are five random things.

I like to take people and things as they are. For me 1 meter is 1 meter, and it is wrong to define a meter in inches or yards. I like to solve technical problems, as they are with the minimum steps and resources possible, not only for maximum efficiency but also because it is much challenging and fun this way. I usually prefer to open a plastic bag than to tear it apart. I believe that lying is failure to find nice and neat solutions.

I am very grateful to the Creator that I am a living creature and I believe it is a great honor to be a human being. I praise the Creator for creating man and woman. I do too many faux pas all the time, but I never intend them and sometimes I feel embarrassed and sorry when I realize them, but I usually laugh and feel happy that I am a human.

Being highly independent, autonomous and open is very essential to me. I work for regular commercial companies and only for civil projects. I avoid any job that has the least of conflict with my principles. I do not put pictures of any person even if he or she is great and respectful. I will not join any organized society or party or stick to any intellectual, scientific or technical school.

I feel kind of sad when any girl cuts her hair short, or when she dyes it completely. I feel worried that women put cosmetics made in some third world countries or by unknown companies, as those products, including hair dyes and powders, may contain unhealthy and dangerous constituents and could negatively affect the health of women or their babies.

I am very sensitive to the beauty of text, weather it is typography or calligraphy. I keep staring at text and I enjoy tasting typographical details like serif and sans serif decorations and spacing of words and letters.

Now let me think of an idea for a new tag, heh heh heh!