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In reply to the discussion: Does redundancy constitute bad grammar? [View all]JackintheGreen
(2,036 posts)29. Not a mention of the long history of rhetoric?
Anaphora, epistrophe, palilogia, and a half dozen other forms of repetition were defined by classical Greek rhetoricians. It was mentioned that repetition is an important part of many languages (South Asian, for example), but English has been deeply inflected by the Greek classics, being a central component of the liberal arts education into the 1950s, and repetition has been a "classic" English rhetorical device for ages and ages (see what I did there?).
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Take it up with the manager of the department of redundancy management department. nt
Xipe Totec
Jul 2017
#1
If we "refer back" to the OP, we'll come to a "general consensus" that he has a point.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Jul 2017
#5
No, a coffee maker is not called a water heater, although it does heat water.
Lionel Mandrake
Aug 2017
#31