Another Redundancy
rogersgeorge on July 4th, 2020
I preach against needless repetition in writing, called redundancy. You can find some of my other redundancy posts using the search box in the upper right corner. Here’s another. I think the speaker had a psychological reason for using it; maybe that’s okay. For speaking, anyway.
“The Greenland canyon we only know about through radar that can see through three kilometers of solid ice.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/greenland-ancient-grand-canyon
Ice is always solid, so “solid” is unnecessary (meaning redundant). In fact, in writing, I think the sentence has a little more punch if you leave the “solid” out. What do you think?
Almost forgot. Here’s a picture:
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