Monday, January 26, 2009

pleonasm

If you don`t know...

Pleonasm. The use of more words than are necessary to express an idea, redudancy...

1. "China is a big country,inhabited by many Chinese ( Prince Charles)

2. " I know that if you leave dishes in the sink they get sticky and hard to wash the next day" ( Arnold Schwarzeneger)

3." I love kids.I was a kid myself,once" ( Tom Cruise)

4. "Do you have blacks,too?" ( George Bush ,in a conversation with a Brazilian president )..this is not pleonasm, but it is funny!!!

5. "I can do anything you want me to do as long as I don`t have to speak" ( Linda Evangelista)

6. "I build my body to carry my brain around "( Sylvester Stalone) ??????

7. "More and more of our imports are coming from overseas " ( George Bush)

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