{"id":302,"date":"2007-12-21T08:55:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T13:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bly.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2007-12-21T08:56:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T13:56:24","slug":"the-department-of-redundancy-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/general\/the-department-of-redundancy-department\/","title":{"rendered":"The Department of Redundancy Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A radio commercial for a financial services firm talked about how their investment advisors could help ensure financial security for &#8220;older senior citizen folks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Are there younger senior citizens? Are there citizens who are not folks? Why not just say &#8220;senior citizens&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>This may seem a small point. But everyone today talks about how no one reads long copy or has time to read. Redundancies add needless words and waste the reader&#8217;s time. <\/p>\n<p>A few more: armed gunman &#8230; living survivors &#8230; RAM memory &#8230; foreign imports &#8230; past history &#8230; stupid idiot &#8230; new innovation &#8230; consensus of opinion &#8230; add together. <\/p>\n<p>Any others you can think of?<\/p>\n<p>And does avoiding redundancies matter in writing? What&#8217;s your personal opinion? Oops, I mean, what&#8217;s your opinion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A radio commercial for a financial services firm talked about how their investment advisors could help ensure financial security for &#8220;older senior citizen folks.&#8221; Are there younger senior citizens? Are there citizens who are not folks? Why not just say &#8220;senior citizens&#8221;? This may seem a small point. But everyone today talks about how no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}