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Redundancy, and "useless" or "nonsensical" words (or phrases, or morphemes), can also be inherited by one language from the influence of another and are not pleonasms in the more critical sense but actual changes in grammatical construction considered to be required for "proper" usage in the language or dialect in question.
RAS syndrome, where RAS stands for redundant acronym syndrome (making the phrase "RAS syndrome" autological), is the redundant use of one or more of the words that make up an acronym in conjunction with the abbreviated form. This means, in effect, repeating one or more words from the acronym.
Bilingual tautological expressions – Redundancy in linguistic expression; Figure of speech – Non-literal word or phrase used for effect; Grammar – Structural rules of a language; Hyperbole – Rhetorical device; Lapalissade – An utterly obvious truism or tautology, with comical effect; No true Scotsman – Informal logical fallacy
In the section "Professional and Scholarly Use", there is a humorous quote by Lord Westbury. The purported irony is that the description "redundant and pleonastic" is itself a pleonasm. However, it seems that redundancy is subsumed by pleonasm, in which case neither word may be superfluous as each connotes differently.
Aabach (disambiguation page), several streams in Germany and Switzerland, "aa" means a course of water, and "bach" means a creek or stream. River Avon, various in England and Scotland, and Avon River, in various parts of the world (River River – Brythonic, Modern Welsh Afon, or Goidelic abhainn) [1]
A natural tendency to keep natural language expressions concise can be perceived as a form of implicit semantic compression, by omitting unmeaningful words or redundant meaningful words (especially to avoid pleonasms). [2]
redundant does not mean "useless" or "unable to perform its function". It means that there is an excess of something, that something is "surplus to requirements" and no longer needed. It means that there is an excess of something, that something is "surplus to requirements" and no longer needed.
There are hard and fast rules about the English language. Although English is a living language that is subject to change, avoiding pleonasms in writing is not going to change. I find this entire conversation ridiculous. I do not find the editors who are insisting upon including the redundancy to be ridiculous.