One more venture into the land of unwarranted words, repetitions and sinful
syntax. If you’re a guilty party, you’re sentence is a series of serious
sessions studying Fowler’s Modern English
Usage!
Advance planning:
Planning, by its very nature nature, is done in advance, otherwise it’s not
planning, is it? Keep ‘advance’ for your language studies.
Filled to capacity:
If you fill something, you do so to capacity. No need for both words to
describe this.
Join together: You
know, you can’t ‘join apart’, you can, in fact, only join things, people etc.,
in a manner that brings them together. ‘Together’ isn’t needed.
New beginning: Something
begins when it’s new. ‘New’ is superfluous.
Completely filled:
See above. Something that’s filled is thoroughly so. Whilst you need a modifier
if something is only partially filled, you don’t need it when the deed is
completed.
Forever and ever: A dubious duplication encouraged by some
fairy tales and, unbelievably, the Lord’s Prayer! If it’s forever, it can’t be
for any longer, so the second ‘ever’ is redundant.
Same identical: Something that is the same is identical.
Enough said.
Therapeutic treatment: Off you go to the therapist for treatment.
If it isn’t therapeutic, you aren’t getting your money’s worth, are you?
Unintended mistake:
A mistake is an error, a slip-up, an accident. By its nature such a thing is
not intended.
Absolutely sure: Sure
about something? Then you have no doubt. Certainty (or being sure) is an
absolute state, so ‘absolute’ is superfluous.
Yet another rant done with.
But there will be more!
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