Water gushes through sand dunes after a rare rainfall in the Sahara desert

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Water gushes through sand dunes after a rare rainfall in the Sahara desert
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Anyone else get irrationally angry when someone calls it the Sahara dessert? No, just me?

It bothers me because "Sahara" is Arabic for desert, so the headline to this article is calling it the desert desert, and apparently, that's a pet peeve of mine.

No, but I get irrationally angry when someone calls a desert dessert.

Chai tea

In my dialect in Norwegian, the word for another and tea is the same, so a direct translation one can use (and I have) when ordering a second chai tea is "Can I have tea tea tea?".

So what's that like in your Norwegian dialect?

Kan eg få ein te te te? Can I have another chai tea?

La Brea Tar pits, Milky Way Galaxy, Lake Tahoe, El Camino Way.

I was under the impression that Tahoe translates to "big water" which is funny.

But "Tar pit Tar pit", "Way Way" and "Desert Desert" are indeed infuriating.

You forgot bo staff to refer to the quarterstaff that Donatello uses

Meh, not everyone speaks Arabic and there are probably people who don't know that the Sahara is a desert.

Minor redundancies are a small price to share information with a wider audience.

It's describing the type of desert by specifying its name. Even in situations where it's not rhe proper name (ie. chai tea), there are equivalent English formations (ie. "tea tea" to distinguish "traditional" tea from other varieties).