Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Word of the Day: Pleonastic

I came across it in a translation forum I use when I'm stuck.

Pleonasm:

1.the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
2.an instance of this, as free gift or true fact.
3.a redundant word or expression.

It reminded me of an earlier post re: tautology.

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