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Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

Here is my example with WFTD.

James Lileks is an entertaining fellow, who takes mere pleonasm to new literary heights as he describes his day.

4 posted on 06/01/2006 6:26:27 AM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)

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My favourite military pleonasm: calling the stairs a "foot-impelled bi-directional vertical transfer asset".

10 posted on 06/01/2006 6:28:47 AM PDT by Argh

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Present.

11 posted on 06/01/2006 6:28:50 AM PDT by Soaring Feather

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James Lileks is an entertaining fellow, who takes mere pleonasm to new literary heights as he describes his day.

Lileks is hilarious.

59 posted on 06/01/2006 9:44:16 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Can I only pay 3 out of five years taxes and profit from identity theft too?)

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pleonasm \PLEE-uh-naz-uhm\ • noun
1. The use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; as, "I saw it with my own eyes."
2. An instance or example of pleonasm.
3. A superfluous word or expression.

Is this definition a pleonasm, or just circular?

60 posted on 06/01/2006 10:48:37 AM PDT by mikrofon (Go Sabres!)

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