Post by account_disabled on Dec 27, 2023 0:06:10 GMT -6
Repetita iuvant , they once said: but is it really useful to repeat things? Repetitions and redundancies in writing are a sign of sloppiness, lack of experience, lack of revision of the text. When I proofread a manuscript, one of the most frequent errors is repetition. Repetitions and redundancies: what are the differences? Repetitions and redundancies are not synonymous: while on the one hand repetition is sometimes good, because it strengthens a thought, redundancy adds nothing to the text. What is a repetition? Action, the act of repeating, that is, of repeating or doing the same thing again, or the fact of repeating, that is, of re-determining events, phenomena, manifestations.
Some time ago I discovered that I often repeated "che", as a conjunction and as a pronoun. Here is an extemporaneous example: The house in the city, which was not inhabited by the spouses who had rented it, who Special Data were always abroad, had been the subject of thefts, which had never led to the arrest of the thieves. With a few cuts and modifications, 4 "that" disappear: The house, never inhabited by the spouses who had rented it - they were always abroad - had suffered several thefts, but the police had never arrested the thieves. As I wrote one day, even a series of adverbs in “-mente” give a sense of repetition in the text, if used often on a page, or in an article, because they sound like a rhyme.
What is a redundancy? In linguistics, lack of specific information content in one or more elements of an oral or written text, so that those elements are superfluous (or redundant). The definition reiterates the uselessness of redundancies . For example “scream out loud”: can you scream in a low voice? Examples of redundancies I remember that already in middle school the redundancies bothered me. I heard the mathematics teacher say "One and only one straight line passes through two distinct points" and she sounded superfluous to me. That sentence contains both a repetition ( una ) and a redundancy ( sola ). If we want to be picky, however, the redundancy is correct because, by removing the repetition, the sentence becomes: "A straight line passes through two distinct points", as if to say that the straight line happens to pass there by chance.
Some time ago I discovered that I often repeated "che", as a conjunction and as a pronoun. Here is an extemporaneous example: The house in the city, which was not inhabited by the spouses who had rented it, who Special Data were always abroad, had been the subject of thefts, which had never led to the arrest of the thieves. With a few cuts and modifications, 4 "that" disappear: The house, never inhabited by the spouses who had rented it - they were always abroad - had suffered several thefts, but the police had never arrested the thieves. As I wrote one day, even a series of adverbs in “-mente” give a sense of repetition in the text, if used often on a page, or in an article, because they sound like a rhyme.
What is a redundancy? In linguistics, lack of specific information content in one or more elements of an oral or written text, so that those elements are superfluous (or redundant). The definition reiterates the uselessness of redundancies . For example “scream out loud”: can you scream in a low voice? Examples of redundancies I remember that already in middle school the redundancies bothered me. I heard the mathematics teacher say "One and only one straight line passes through two distinct points" and she sounded superfluous to me. That sentence contains both a repetition ( una ) and a redundancy ( sola ). If we want to be picky, however, the redundancy is correct because, by removing the repetition, the sentence becomes: "A straight line passes through two distinct points", as if to say that the straight line happens to pass there by chance.