📚 Beyond Measure: Navigating ‘In Addition To’ and Its Sibling Clichés ✨
Ah, redundancy, the spice of life when one ‘is exaggerating to emphasize’! Today, we’re taking a good ol’ look at “in addition to, more than”—the verbose band of buddies buckling under dual significance since the flip-top hats of the early 1500s. Indubitably (yes, that’s another upstanding member of Team Redundancy), combining ‘in addition to’ and ‘more than’ may be superfluous, but oh, how it stresses importance!
🎉 Similar and Related Terms:
- Over and above: Beyond what’s normally expected.
- As well as: In addition to.
- And then some: Signifying more than implied.
- Further: Additional.
- Moreover: Besides; in addition to.
Each formation desires to gift-wrap your message with extra layers of aural appreciation.
📜 Proverbs and Inspirational Tidbits:
- “An abundance of caution,” said Policeman Percy, who always tiptoed twice!
- “Three’s a crowd but four’s a party,” remarked Party Pooper Poindexter critically.
- “Surplus talk won’t bake through intention like dough,” quipped the Bread Philosopher.
📚 Extending Your Literary Horizons:
Books:
- “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation” by Lynne Truss 🦘, dips into the no-nonsense nectar of our language’s quirks.
Songs:
- “Paradox” by Kansas 🎸 ensures to unravel life’s complex dualities.
Movies:
- “Say Anything” (1989) 📀 timelessly illustrates that vehement speeches need not detour into verbose highways.
🎨 Fun with Redundancy: Quizzical Statements and Scenarios
So there you have it, dear reader! Allow the seas of redundancy spill knowledgeably through your linguistic lens.
Farewell: Life, dear wordplay enthusiast, emanates far ‘beyond measure’; treasure the audacious languages that lay peppered generously and playfully therein.
— Ellis Evocative, 2023 —
