Quick question - is "to cook food" a tautology? I'm thinking yes, because "cook" isn't used with anything else in the sense of actual cooking. Am I right?

@Mitch It's Diana Rigg, by the way.

@Gallifreyan Well, I don't know what you mean by a tautology, but it is certainly fine to say cook food. And I am Superman by the way, since that question was about Superman.

@JasonBourne I thought you'd be pleased if there were more than one.

@Mitch Yes, I was just watching her other movie in the same year. Hmm, I don't know why she looks so beautiful to me.

@JasonBourne he means redundant or a pleonasm

@Gallifreyan sure it's a little redundant but it's kind of boring to just 'cook' sometimes.

I see. Thanks @Mitch, @Jason, I'll leave it as it is then ;)

@Mitch You know I ain't even sure that all these redundant words are redundant. One can always think of strange combinations. For example, cook humans to be used in a movie where they kill humans, not necessarily for their food

@Gallifreyan uh... leave what as it is. It may turn out that your full sentence sounds weird.

@JasonBourne Yes.

backs away slowly

@Mitch Now I have seen many movies where they cook humans, you know, it's my kind of movie, lol

understands all too well

Exactly! See?

I know.

There are many questions like this on ELU. When someone says it is redundant I upvote. When someone says some strange case I also upvote

It sounds like al you do is upvote

@Mitch The title of this qiestion.

See how generous I am. But others will just downvote this and that for the smallest reason, not even a reason at all

you should mix it up. you really like something, go wild and downvote it.

@JasonBourne yeah it's like anna karenina

all good questions are boring because they are alike

bad questions are different in each their own way

And then they will think that it is wrong for me to upvote. But the first case I upvote cos it's true 99 per cent of the time and the second case I upvote cos it's the other 1 per cent.

So it's not that I didn't think enough about the problem but rather the downvoter who didn't think enough about it and thinks I didn't think enough when I thought 10 times more than he did

@Gallifreyan OH. Sure. there 'cook food' sounds better than just 'cook'. I'm having a hard time figuring out why.

@JasonBourne You sure think a lot!

You know about thinker's anonymous, right?

@Mitch Because the mind usually takes a few words to get an idea right. Right?

@JasonBourne You had me at your first 'right'

@Mitch Indeed, a bit too much which is why I got sick in the first place.

But yeah, it's nice to get a little repetition in case you weren't sure at first.

Did I tell you the thickest book I have?

It's the Oxford Paravia Italian Dictionary at 2800 pages!

The sheer thickness of it makes it authoritative!

@Mitch idiotfreezone.com/Politics/thinkers-anonymous.html

I think the only think that can match that is if I get Webster's Third New International Dictionary which I don't intend to get now.

It started out innocently enough.
I began to think at parties. You know, just a little now and then -- to loosen up. Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a 'social thinker'. I began to think alone -- 'to relax', I told myself. But even back then I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me, and eventually I was thinking all the time. I would get up in the morning and start thinking before breakfast and I would think right up until I passed out at night. That was when things began to go bad at home. One evening, I turned off th…

@JasonBourne and perfect for pressing flowers!

@JasonBourne OK...but have you used it?

@Mitch I see what you have been doing with your small font OED.

What is Italian for Schadenfreude?

@Mitch I did admire the typography.

@JasonBourne seriously, I use some old textbooks for flowers

@Mitch I don't know. It's too far away from me now.

@JasonBourne If I ever get bad eyesight, I will blame Oxford

hm... my eyesight is not getting better

@Mitch My SOED is almost 4000 pages but it is in 2 volumes, normal font size.

@JasonBourne that's no excuse. walk across the room and open it up to the right page.

@JasonBourne S= Shorter?

@Mitch Yes.

so they abridged it?

It does contain the 45 letter lung disease.

That seems in the direction of a sin

Yes, it is already in the 6th edition.

I am surprised you never heard of it.

@JasonBourne pneumo...volcanoconiosis?

@Mitch Yes.

@JasonBourne THere are a lot of things I don't hear about.

a lot

have you heard the latest about Taylor Swift?

@Mitch Indeed, not many people know about the dictionaries published by Oxford as much as I do =)

@Mitch No. I only care about Taylor Lautner because he is hot.

I'm sure a marketing agent at Oxford does

@JasonBourne Oh, well, I don't know about him either

@Mitch I can't be confident of that either.

maybe him and Diana Rigg should get together?

wait...she's a bit older

Strange thought. I thought it should be Diana and I, lol.

not that that's a problem

She is very old now!

maybe their conversations may be a little empty.

Did you know...

that Taylor Lautner...

Oh I know, you have been thinking of Laura and I, lol.

started his career...

as a skateboarder?

Yes yes I know

I am going to eat

That makes one of us.