Not Practicing What They Preach

rogersgeorge on December 10th, 2023

One of my five main principles in writing is to be concise. (The name for the error of not being concise is to be pleonastic, which is a fancy word for “wordiness.”) So here:

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And one type of pleonasm is being redundant, which is when the extra word or words mean the same thing as the word you actually need. Don’t do this!

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