pleonasm
Paul McCartney certainly had his moments of lyrical elegance. But he wasn't at his best in "Live and Let Die." For instance, the line
gets me every dang time I hear it. "World in which we live in?" Really? No one caught that before it went to press?
I just heard that sung twelve times. I cringed every time.
And, for the record, that mistake is called a pleonasm.
But if this ever-changing world in which we live in
Makes you give in and cry
gets me every dang time I hear it. "World in which we live in?" Really? No one caught that before it went to press?
I just heard that sung twelve times. I cringed every time.
And, for the record, that mistake is called a pleonasm.
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