Prolixity is also used simply to obfuscate, confuse, or euphemize and is not necessarily redundant or pleonastic in such constructions, though it often is . " Post-traumatic stress disorder " ( shellshock ) and " pre-owned vehicle " ( used car ) are both tumid euphemisms but are not redundant.
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Ishmael was of opinion that the Torah was conveyed in the language of man ( " Yerushalmi Yevamot ", viii . 8d; " Yerushalmi Nedarim ", i . 36c ), and that therefore a seemingly pleonastic word or syllable can not be taken as a basis for new deductions.
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Many are critical of the excessively abbreviated constructions of " headline-itis " or " newsspeak ", so " loud [ music ] " and " sound of the [ burglary ] " in the above example should probably not be properly regarded as pleonastic or otherwise genuinely redundant, but simply as informative and clarifying.
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It says " convicted convicted of a felony, " which is as tautologous, pleonastic and repetitive as revert back, general consensus, safe haven and sworn affidavit . ( Kill tautologous and pleonastic; they're repetitive . ) Such usage treats the reader as an uneducated oaf unaware that an affidavit must be sworn and that the essence of a haven is safety.
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It says " convicted convicted of a felony, " which is as tautologous, pleonastic and repetitive as revert back, general consensus, safe haven and sworn affidavit . ( Kill tautologous and pleonastic; they're repetitive . ) Such usage treats the reader as an uneducated oaf unaware that an affidavit must be sworn and that the essence of a haven is safety.
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Here is a dictionary definition of " henge " : " a Neolithic monument of the British Isles, consisting of a circular area enclosed by a bank and ditch and often containing additional features including one or more circles of upright stone or wood pillars : probably used for ritual purposes or for marking astronomical events, as solstices and equinoxes . " All henges are monuments, and the combination " henge monument " is somewhat pleonastic, like " cleaver knife " or " grappa brandy ".
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Similarly, even though scuba stands for " self-contained underwater breathing apparatus ", a phrase like " the scuba gear " would probably not be considered pleonastic because " scuba " has been reanalyzed into English as a simple word, and not an acronym suggesting the pleonastic word sequence " apparatus gear " . ( Most do not even know that it is an acronym and do not spell it SCUBA or S . C . U . B . A . See radar and laser for similar examples .)
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Similarly, even though scuba stands for " self-contained underwater breathing apparatus ", a phrase like " the scuba gear " would probably not be considered pleonastic because " scuba " has been reanalyzed into English as a simple word, and not an acronym suggesting the pleonastic word sequence " apparatus gear " . ( Most do not even know that it is an acronym and do not spell it SCUBA or S . C . U . B . A . See radar and laser for similar examples .)
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Some speakers who use such utterances do so in an attempt, albeit a grammatically unconventional one, to create a non-pleonastic construction : A person who says " X is more bigger than Y " may, in the context of a conversation featuring a previous comparison of some object Z with Y, mean " The degree by which X exceeds Y in size is greater than the degree by which Z exceeds Y in size . " This usage amounts to the treatment of " bigger than Y " as a single grammatical unit, namely an adjective itself admitting of degrees, such that " X is more bigger than Y " is equivalent to " X is more bigger-than-Y than Z is . " Another common way to express this is : " X is even bigger than Z ."
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A classic problem for coreference resolution in English is the pronoun " it ", which has many uses . " It " can refer much like " he " and " she ", except that it generally refers to inanimate objects ( the rules are actually more complex : animals may be any of " it ", " he ", or " she "; ships are traditionally " she "; hurricanes are usually " it " despite having gendered names ) . " It " can also refer to abstractions rather than beings : " He was paid minimum wage, but didn't seem to mind it . " Finally, " it " also has pleonastic uses, which do not refer in anything specific:
