We sometimes use ‘pleonasms’ without giving them a second thought.
And what are they?
A ‘pleonasm’ is what we use when we repeat ourselves.
Here are some examples:
PIN means a ‘personal identification number’. So we don’t need to say ‘PIN number’.
And ‘vast majority’. ‘Majority’ means the largest part of a group. So we don’t need the word ‘vast’.
Did you catch that pleonasm in the heading? We don’t need ‘again’, because ‘repeat’ means to say again!
We all know to-do lists, don’t we? And many of us use them regularly.
According to Adam Dachis, we can improve our productivity by making ‘break lists’!
We all know how important breaks are!
Here’s Adam’s short definition of a break list … “A set of planned breaks with planned times that you can take at any time when you need them. Then check them off when you’re done. You can keep your break list right next to your to do list so you never forget it, and you’ll always have a planned, functional break ready to go whenever you need it.”
Read this article to learn why this strategy can help you work better and stay motivated, and how to set break lists up.
Positive sentences are shorter and easier to understand if we replace a negative phrase (like phrases with ‘not’) with a single word that means the same thing.
So instead of writing ‘not able’, write ‘unable’. Or instead of ‘not often’, write ‘rarely’. Or ‘not unlike’, write ‘similar’.
“The future depends on what you do today.” Mahatma Gandhi
You’re a passenger in someone else’s car. How do you behave?
Do you vape in the car? Do you switch stations on the radio?
British etiquette expert William Hanson has some tips for us.
“When I was young there was only 25 letters in the alphabet? Nobody knew why.”
Do you get it? Look below for the explanation.
why = Y
