:: " 2500-year anniversary " is a barbarous pleonasm, all three times you pasted that paragraph . talk ) 18 : 08, 16 January 2011 ( UTC)
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The name is a pleonasm, as " Drum " is slang for " House " in some English dialects, and " Billet " is a ( more typically ) military term for housing.
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Is " XY is starting to begin . " simply a pleonasm, or does this actually make sense in English ?-- talk ) 12 : 43, 20 March 2014 ( UTC)
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The degree to which there is a need to avoid pleonasms such as redundant acronyms depends on one's balance point of descriptivism ( the realities of how natural language " is " used ).
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So, as it is logically, one does not change the singular into the plural form, because it is not necessary and considered a pleonasm ( in Indonesian often called " Pemborosan Kata " ).
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Since common nouns do have a lot of conceptual content, s / he is generally not free to choose what common noun people should be applied to him / her-firefighter, drunkard, elephant, pleonasm, woman.
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Schliepp wrote that the poems have " high standards of translation " but there are diction errors such as " distracting alliteration, " pleonasm, lexical level clich�s of verse translation, and obscurity not present in the original Chinese.
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For writing intended to persuade, impress, or avoid criticism, usage guides advise writers to avoid pleonasm as much as possible, not because such usage is always " wrong ", but rather because most of one's audience may " believe " that it is always wrong.
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This is a good reason for careful speakers and writers to be aware of pleonasms, especially with cases such as " tuna fish ", which is normally used only in some dialects of American English, and would sound strange in other variants of the language, and even odder in translation into other languages.
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Thus, they reject expressions such as " more perfect ", " most unique ", and " most parallel " as illogical pleonasms : after all, if something is unique, it is one of a kind, so nothing can be " very unique ", or " more unique " than something else.
