Book Review: Say It Again, Marcia!
Portland author Marcia Riefer Johnston has a new book out, You Can Say That Again, an exploration of the fun and frustration of redundancy, duplication, and wordiness. She acknowledges up front that there’s a time for redundancy — an important point for a contrarian like me — but her lists of redundant phrases are a wake-up call for the sleepy, lazy, tiresome redundancy that comes from inattention or from just having a hard time deciding which word I really want to use. You C
