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Old October 08, 2010, 01:52 AM
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Originally Posted by JPablo View Post
Yet, when you have these two in English, even if synonyms, they give a nice emphasis to the concept... without being redundant, nor creating a pleonasm.
This seems to be a modern device which I find very annoying, often used by journalists, stringing two synonyms together which suggest a difference which doesn't exist, such as 'the government is worried and concerned' and so on. I personally think it denigrates language, but each to his own.
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