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I base this text on a page Richard Nordquist[1] has published on about.com comprising common expressions (Phrasemes) which many (not just Richard) misclassify as redundancies (where the redundancies in his list are shown in parentheses). Nordquist’s using the term redundancy is … Continue reading
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Tagged clarity, compounding, criticism, distinctions, elipsis, generalisations, irony, isochrony, linguistics, literary, oxymorons, platitude, pleonasm, redundancy, rhetoric, standardising, tautology
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