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One of the speakers in our office meeting used this line today and everybody in the hall literally "got puzzled paradoxically in a discombobulated discombobulation" and panicked for a while thinking he was speaking in tongues... At the end, some praised him for his good use of the dictionary, i guess, but some argued that it was Chihuahua English... Now, is that genuinely a correct combination of words or exaggerated use of dictionary? as far as the "English language and usage" is concerned. Formally and informally

Edit: When analyzed, it sounds like saying, I was confused confusedly in a confused confusion... is that good English or tautology?

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  • You will have to define "genuinely correct combination". Nothing at all prevents colorless green ideas from sleeping furiously.
    – RegDwigнt
    Commented Oct 7, 2014 at 10:29
  • I wish you were present and heard how it sounded for yourself... (like thunders)... these are just what I could quickly write down, he said like a tone more of really heavy words... We are all well educated but we can't communicate like this..
    – ErickBest
    Commented Oct 7, 2014 at 10:35
  • Try replacing the words with their shorter-simpler synonyms and tell me what happened.
    – Kris
    Commented Oct 7, 2014 at 12:44
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    Assigning him to work in a windowless office filing invoices from 1993 until he has calmed down should work wonders.
    – Erik Kowal
    Commented Oct 7, 2014 at 12:59
  • @Erick Kowal Perfect comment... If we all walked in streets with pocket dictionaries to impress each other with heavy tautological statements or vocabularies, instead of looking somewhat intelligent, we will waste alot of time and look Crappy..
    – ErickBest
    Commented Oct 7, 2014 at 13:28

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It's not grammatically incorrect. I'd hazard a guess that it was intended as emphatic tautology. Whether it achieved the speaker's desired effect, I'll leave for you to judge.

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  • Yes indeed, he "achieved his utmost desired effect" when we all got puzzled paradoxically in a discombobulated discombobulation of words.
    – ErickBest
    Commented Oct 7, 2014 at 11:06

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