Nuder? Nudest? ATM Machine? English is officially broken.

[2kidsdad]

When the english dictionary start accepting broken or redundant terms as official English...it's likely to go downhill from there. In the sense of 'unclothed,' Webster's 10th Collegiate shows nuder as an adjective: nude, nuder, nudest. How can one person be nuder than another? Either you are so or you are not

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[phaedie]

I got a dictionary for Christmas one year when Mya was about ten, can't remember if it was an oxfords or a websters but I do remember finding the word soccer mom in it (two words hello?) and being disgusted and giving up on the English language at that point.
Language is a constantly evolving thing for sure and that doesn't mean I have to like the way it is evolving. ;)

[sharya]

There are a couple of uses for some of the redundant words you've listed, where I could see them being legitimately used.

The one that pops to mind is "Free gift".

If you check out lj's virtual gift section, you can buy people a gift that shows up on their profile. Lately, they have been trying to promote them, by letting you give five virtual gifts for free. These then become free gifts :P