Posted by
Andrews on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:41:28 PM
I realize I haven't posted a rant about spelling or grammar and some time (much to the relief of many readers, I imagine), but tonight I was watching television and heard someone use one of the two phrases which annoy me more than most, "in unison together", the other being "verbatim word for word".
Now "unison together" is slightly less annoying, as "unison" implies "together", but does not specifically mean "together", the way that "verbatim" and "word for word" mean exactly the same thing. Of course, "unison" is still impossible without a "together", so it is redundant, but ti is not quite as offensive. Still, I would prefer if those using these repetitive phrase would expend a tiny amount of thought and pick one word or the other and not end up needlessly using both words.
There, that was mostly painless, wasn't it? Much shorter than most of my grammar and spelling posts.
I now return you to your normal reading.