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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cybertalus" data-source="post: 1934598" data-attributes="member: 4400">Okay "Fed Ex Express" may or may not technically be redundant, but it still sounds dumb to me.  I know there are sentence constructions in English where it is correct to use the same word twice in a row, but the little editor who sits inside my brain (and is the reason it takes me half an hour or more to write even a short post) gets very upset when he sees them, and even more upset when I try to use them.Sure, it sounds simple, but when you're trying to read with someone and they've got 3.5 English and you've got 3.0 English it just doesn't work out quite so well.  The rules don't work quite the same, things in the "same" book are on different pages, and the conversion manual doesn't quite explain the changes adequately.  Worse, with all the focus on changes to the rules of English, people seem to lose sight of the fact that the point of English is to communicate, preferrably in fun and creative ways, not to argue about the rules of English all the time.  Well, the point of English is also to become the dominant language so that everyone who communicates has certainly heard of English, and most have spoken it at least a few times, but that aspect isn't generally discussed much except by people who prefer languages other than English. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

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