- Genre:language arts & disciplines
- Sub-genre:Writing / General
- Language:English
- Pages:52
- eBook ISBN:9780985820343
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Overview
A light look at how we fill our writing, our speech, and our thoughts with needlessly repetitive (okay, just repetitive) words. Includes a list of 750 redundant phrases we hear and use--say it ain't so!--every day.
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It started with a simple idea. When Connie Giordano and Al Martine, owners of the TechWhirl website, invited me to write an article, I decided to collect some of the redundant phrases I ran across in my editing projects, phrases that made me smile. Why not share the pleasure?
“That one’s going on the list,” I found myself saying day after day.
After the TechWhirl article was published in October of 2013, I couldn’t stop. The list grew. And grew. I smiled every time I read or heard (or said) things like this:
sufficient enough
tall in stature
equal halves
overly paranoid
long-term rather than short-term
mutual benefit for all involved
“That one’s going on the list.”
Others caught the fever. The phrases rolled in from Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Listly--even from across the dinner table. Two hundred. Three hundred. Six hundred. A new book called to me.
Now it calls to you.
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