Showing posts with label repetition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repetition. Show all posts

Thursday, July 9, 2009

I don't usually write about style problems here, but this one is an affront to linguists everywhere. Written on a Marvel.com post about the superhero team the New Warriors:

Who doesn't love a hero who gets their turbo-powered fan-suit accidentally at a costume party by accident and then goes on to be a pretty great hero in her own right?

It just hurts to hear that "accidentally by accident" garbage here. This is another one for the Department of Redundancy Department.

Source: http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.8693.Take_10~colon~_New_Warriors

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Welcome to the Department of Redundancy Department

From the OU Daily (the local campus paper):

Anyone who regularly reads this column regularly knows Robert Kirkman is one of my favorite comic book writers.

Source: http://oudaily.com/news/2009/apr/22/week-comics-kick-ass-no-6-invincible-no-61/

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Even the newspaper's getting in on the act!

While they're not "professional" writers, per se, contributors to the local college paper are seeing their work in print, with an editor to review it. Many of them are journalism students, planning on entering the workforce as professional writers upon graduation. So, imagine my surprise when I found the following mistake in a recent article:

I was informed that I was booked on a flight for Tuesday, though this was not very reassuring as, as I was previously booked on the flight that had just taken off without me.

Not only is the 'as' doubled here, the first one is even misplaced, appearing before the comma!

Source: http://oudaily.com/news/2009/mar/24/column-overbooked-flights-shouldnt-keep-us-flying/