Instead of being the lost soul of a loner drifting aimlessly having a peripatetic wind, I'm now preferring something with more bite to it. As experience is just nature cruel way of giving the exams first followed by their lessons; you eventually reach a point where silence can no longer be contained no matter the cost.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
PLEONASM - Wednesday, November 16, 2016
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Definitions for pleonasm
the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
an instance of this, as free gift or true fact.
a redundant word or expression.
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Citations for pleonasm
As the standard of mentality has risen, just so has the dictum of man gone forth that he must and will do his own thinking. He no longer wishes to have the thought iterated and reiterated and hammered in upon him again and again.Pleonasm is repellent to him.Jack London, "Phenomena of Literary Evolution," The Bookman, Volume XII, September 1900–February 1901
Political speakers, in particular, have always favored pleonasm over conciseness, both on aesthetic grounds, like rhythm and euphony, and out of a congenital dread of the end of a sentence., "Talk of the Town: Notes and Comment," The New Yorker, September 14, 1968
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