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Topic Options #180460 - 11/20/08 08:09 AM repitition versus redundancy daly stranger Registered: 11/20/08 Posts: 1 A question for my word maven friends....for most people the term redundancy implies repitition. If I say something exactly the same way three times I am being both repititious and redundant. I am looking for a word that describes saying that same thing different ways. If I give people two different examples of the same concept, what would that be--certainly it isn;t repititious but might it be redundant. It is sort of like triangulation when someone or some thing is being located. You take a reading in one direction and then a second reading from a slightly different angle. At the point of intersection, you find the person or object. In medieval and renaissance times there was a great word for it--copia...but we don't use this word today. Thanks for your help. Top #180461 - 11/20/08 08:46 AM Re: repitition versus redundancy [Re: daly] The Pook old hand Registered: 02/20/08 Posts: 957 Loc: Tasmania corroboration correlation Top #180462 - 11/20/08 10:03 AM Re: repitition versus redundancy [Re: daly] twosleepy addict Registered: 02/28/08 Posts: 461 Loc: western NY rephrasing I do it all day long. It's my job.... :0) And my concept of redundant connotes unwanted repetition, so rephrasing is not redundant, it's helpful. Redundant can be helpful if, as an example, it's a backup system for your life support. Top #180465 - 11/20/08 11:55 AM Re: repitition versus redundancy [Re: twosleepy] tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 8908 Loc: this too shall pass just to throw in a sesquipedalianism (or two-dollar word) [or type-3 word], paraphrasis (not to be confused with periphrasis) link -joe (just doin' my job) friday Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 6784 Members 16 Forums 12335 Topics 181235 Posts Max Online: 853 @ 10/23/07 11:39 AM Who's Online 0 registered (), 9 Guests and 18 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Newest Members northodox, Michael Paris, hellerfan, Conora, PastorVon 6783 Registered Users Top Posters wwh 13858 Faldage 11844 Jackie 9812 tsuwm 8908 AnnaStrophic 6434 Wordwind 6296 etaoin 6245 of troy 5400 maverick 4683 WhitmanO'Neill 4186 January Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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