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Subject: 
Redundancy (was Re: True Right Wing Fascists)
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Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:00:01 GMT
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"Selçuk " wrote:

(1) Redundant = Using several synonyms side by side to describe a thing?

Redundant is saying the same thing twice - typically in different words.
An example is "that _big_ truck was _gigantic_."

Chris



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  Re: True Right Wing Fascists
 
Mark Rendle <rendle2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FoJEuB.23x@lugnet.com... (...) I'm not a native English speaker, so sometimes I can't get some sentences true, but If I'm getting what you are saying correctly(1), you are just right about (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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