Of course, you knew there would be a word to describe the use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning: pleonasm .

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As a card-carrying grammar nerd, I welcomed the "linguistic rant" against pleonasm but must point out a few ironies in the piece ("Destroying 'totally destroy,'" Sept.

For me, GH should be a pleonasm , it should belong to all.

For comparison, pleonasm is less common for storm modes with a well-established, objective criterion.

Consequently, in the Austrian view, irrational behavior is impossible by definition; hence, rational behavior must be seen as a pleonasm .

have already heard: namely, that by treating the phrase "student workers" as a pleonasm hasn't one effectively factored the student out of the equation?

Correspondingly, other obvious dangers in epithetism--the risk of pleonasm and the cbeville in automatic collocations, a certain tendency toward prolixity and a concomitant loss of perceptual intensity--are removed.

The first target is the term "social justice," which Jasay thinks a pleonasm at best, a dangerous subversion of justice at worst.

And there is no music-theatre, because music-theatre is a pleonasm .

Since no one desires the apparently good when one knows that this is not really good, it is something of a pleonasm to claim that appetite takes the apparently pleasurable as unqualifiedly good.