It may be observed in passing that the current phrase " native-born citizen " is well understood; but it is pleonasm and should be discarded; and the correct designation, " native citizen " should be substituted in all constitutional and statutory enactments, in judicial decisions and in legal discussions where accuracy and precise language are essential to intelligent discussion.
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When Robert South said, " It is a pleonasam, a figure usual in Scripture, by a multiplicity of expressions to signify one notable thing, " he was observing the Biblical Hebrew poetic propensity to repeat thoughts in different words, since written Biblical Hebrew was a comparatively early form of written language and was written using oral patterning, which has many pleonasms.
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The relevent points already are or can be addressed optimally in other articles : classical mechanics, space, time, Philosophy of space and time, interpretation of quantum mechanics, etc . Note that before quantum mechanics physics did not directly inspire philosophy, i . e . the title " philosophical interpretation of classical physics ", besides being a pleonasm, sounds like an oxymoron.
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Pleonasm can also take the form of purely semantic redundancies that are a part of the de facto standard usage in a language and " transparent " to the user ( e . g ., the French question " Qu'est-ce que c'est ? " meaning " What's that ? " or " What is it ? ", which translates very literally as " What is it that it is ? " ).
