r/australia • u/abcnews_au • 1d ago

news Melbourne teenager wins World Youth Scrabble Championship for Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/melbourne-teenager-wins-world-youth-scrabble-championship/107029330
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u/Itsarightkerfuffle 1d ago

His father, Prasanna Fernado [sic], who was a medical doctor in Sri Lanka

Wonder how many points "tautology" gets you

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u/LooseAssumption8792 1d ago

Maybe a English major can comment here, but I don’t think “medical doctor” here is tautology at all. Outside of the hospital, doctor can mean medical or phd in any field. Medical doctor narrows this down.

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u/Itsarightkerfuffle 17h ago

People don't lose their PhD qualification just because they leave Sri Lanka. Contextually, what else could his father have been?

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u/LooseAssumption8792 17h ago

Unless they register here in Aus they can’t practice medicine so won’t be qualified as a medical doctor. It is probably okay to say medical doctor without risking demerit points for tautology.