Do you know what a homonym is?

[Haitch]

Intensifier?
"A word, esp. an adjective or adverb, that has little semantic content of its own but serves to intensify the meaning of the word or phrase that it modifies: awfully and up are intensifiers in the phrases awfully sorry and cluttered up."
Collins English Dictionary

 

[srw]

"Superfluous" was my thought, too.

 

[Shaun]

Otiose?

Never come across that word before either - interesting.

 

[Aperitif]

It's when you go on holiday after you get married.

Torquay is nice.

Ha ha! - nice.

 

[Aperitif]

"Superfluous" was my thought, too.

Like mine, they often s are.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Not going here...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I've got a feeling that using a redundant adjective that points the reader, either intentionally or unintentionally, is a form of pleonasm (use of superfluous or redundant words, often enriching the thought.) - but I'm not entirely sure that pleonasm is commonly understood as a range of different forms of rhetoric.

 

[swee'pea99]

I've got a feeling that using a redundant adjective that points the reader, either intentionally or unintentionally, is a form of pleonasm (use of superfluous or redundant words, often enriching the thought.) - but I'm not entirely sure that pleonasm is commonly understood as a range of different forms of rhetoric.

"It's English, Jim...but not as we know it."