Shocking: Borders in Worse Financial Shape Than I Am

Yeah, it’s based in Michigan, but Borders has six Dallas-area stories, including the one I often frequent at Lovers and Greenville. And the company just had to borrow $42.5 million from its largest investor to stay afloat, and it is mulling a sale. In the business press, we call that “murmur.”

10 comments

  1. Isn’t “often frequent” redundant?

    @ 1:24 pm on March 20, 2008
  2. not in this context. “frequent” here is used as a verb and “often” is used as an adverb.

    @ 1:55 pm on March 20, 2008
  3. It’s still redundant — in the sense that “rush quickly” would be.

    @ 2:13 pm on March 20, 2008
  4. Not redundant.

    In this sentence, frequent means “patronize.”

    “often patronize” would be correct, therefore “often frequent” is also correct.

    @ 2:53 pm on March 20, 2008
  5. If they had left the store at Coit and Arapaho open, they would be fine now, seeing as 1/3rd my paycheck seemed to go there.

    @ 3:54 pm on March 20, 2008
  6. It means to patronize often. So it’s a location that Eric “often patronizes often.” Redundant. (Still, only a blogpost.)

    @ 5:22 pm on March 20, 2008
  7. While I have the Department of Redundancy Department’s attention, I would like on ruling on this: sports—mostly hockey–writers sometimes refer to a pass as a “feed pass.” I think a pass is a feed and therefore redundant. My god, I’m turning into Tim.

    @ 7:17 pm on March 20, 2008
  8. And now I’ve forgotten my PIN number.

    @ 9:00 pm on March 20, 2008
  9. Nancy,
    Sounds logical, but as you know a “feed pass” in hockey is a specific type of pass where usually a forward in the offensive zone who is stationary either on the low post or the wing passes it to a streaking forward or D coming from the high slot. Result: usually a biscuit in the basket.

    @ 12:28 am on March 21, 2008
  10. Oh no! I love Borders. Much better than B&N in my opinion. If you’ll excuse me, I need to go buy $42.5 million in books.

    @ 11:21 am on March 23, 2008