Richard nordquist biography
The Editor: Richard Nordquist, professor emeritus of English at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia (USA), was one of the keynote speakers at the international conference held in Tallinn (Estonia) in spring
Richard Nordquist is professor emeritus of rhetoric and English at Georgia Southern University....
Dr. Richard Nordquist, a professor emeritus of rhetoric and English at Armstrong Atlantic State University here in the state of Georgia, USA, compiled a helpful list of what he called “200 common redundancies” in English for About.com, a website dedicated to providing informative content by experts on a wide range of topics.
In what follows, I have compressed Dr.
Nordquist’s list of redundancies and added my commentary. The words in parenthesis are redundant and should be avoided by careful writers.From my perspective, though, redundancies or tautologies are not necessarily grammatical errors.
Business, Finance & Law · Computing & Internet.They are sometimes necessary for emphasis and clarity. But most of them are also the product of intellectual sloppiness. So here you go:
1.(Actual) facts. The “actual” in the phrase is useless because actuality is the only ingredient of facts.
It isn’t a “fact” if it isn’t “actual.R
