If my guess is correct, it seems that a tautology is always pleonastic, but a pleonasm is not necessarily tautologous.
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:Ack, you're right Dapete . " Einander gegeseitig " is a pleonasm and thus strictly incorrect.
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At the most basic definition, " a key is a unique identifier ", so " unique " key is a pleonasm.
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The latter humorous quote above about not making predictions by Yogi Berra is not really a pleonasm, but rather an ironic play on words.
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However, it is allowed for both parts of the name of a species to mean the same ( pleonasm ), without being identical in spelling.
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:: : Often they are just tautology ( or should that be pleonasm ? ), but don't we often use this just for emphasis?
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On the other hand, as is the case with any literary or rhetorical effect, excessive use of pleonasm weakens writing and speech; words distract from the content.
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Television critics at the time noted disdainfully that " The New TNN ", when written out, stood for " The New The National Network ", a pleonasm.
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Remember how as you tried to reword the sentence to increase precision, you added words, got your tenses tangled, committed pleonasm and used " controversy " twice?
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Language mavens no longer use tautology; it has been thrust aside by redundancy ( and when I am caught out erring along those lines, the Squad Squad has a pleonasm ).
