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by darkwater 38 days ago
Well, it's called "tautology" and it's a perfectly valid rhetorical device.
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wazdra 38 days ago
A tautology is a sentence vacuously true. This is called a pleonasm.
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gizajob 38 days ago
Was about to post the same thing. It is indeed the under-appreciated pleonasm rather than a tautology.
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darkwater 38 days ago
Yes, mixed the two. Point stands though.
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