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Pleonasm - Word of the Day - Wed Aug 19, 2020

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Pleonasm - (noun) - the use of more words than necessary to denote mere sense (as in "the man he said"): redundancy

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The redundant department of redundancy is a pleonasm.

 

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I had a teacher whose favorite phrase was, "Finally, at last."

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Myr
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a Yogi Berra-ism.... "It's like deja-vu, all over again."

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I think I can occasionally be sometimes guilty of pleonasm myself... :yes:

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I keep reading this as 'neoplasm', which is something quite different :unsure:  

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On 8/19/2020 at 12:22 PM, Valkyrie said:

I keep reading this as 'neoplasm', which is something quite different :unsure:  

True, but both do tend toward excess.

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