| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
Nobody has mentioned tautologies or deadwood so far in this notesfile. Doesn't anybody get annoyed by them? These days we all: - look back in retrospect - have the benefit of past history - pre-plan all our projects - return back to what we were doing .......... and so on. Hundreds of such phrases are ruining the language. If "return" now needs "back" to give it meaning, what happens when we need another word because "return back" no longer means "return"? Politicians are, of course, the worst offenders. This style of speaking means that you can talk for a long while and not be in the slightest danger of saying anything significant. But we all do the same sort of thing - hands up all those who have never used the term "hard copy printer". (And hands up all those who have a soft copy printer!) jack
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| 13.1 | SUMMIT::GRIFFIN | Mon Sep 10 1984 09:41 | 3 | ||
I always thought that tautology was the science of saying "farewell"... - dave | |||||
| 13.2 | YUPPY::MINDHAMR | Fri Aug 23 1991 23:38 | 11 | ||
Seven years later......
Not quite duplication but certainly an excess of words (deadwood) in:
At this moment in time - what's wrong with "now"?
Richard.
ps. I'm new to this and have about another 3000 notes to go thro'. I'm
waiting to see if anyone else's blood boils at the use of leverage
within Digital when people mean lever.
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