It's just, 'La Brea pits.'
If you say The La Brea Tar pits, all you're syaing is 'The the tar tar pits.'
It makes no sense.
If you say The La Brea Tar pits, all you're syaing is 'The the tar tar pits.'
It makes no sense.
It's should not be 'The La Brea Tar pits.'
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True. But, I'm coming around to the general understanding that, if you're looking for sense, you've arrived at the wrong tea party.
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But I like "the the tar tar pits." It has a stickiness to it in a stuttering, ohshit kind of way...
I thought a pleonasm was a word that could be removed from a literary work without changing the works meaning.
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Elipsis are the three dots and Ellipsis is what you described...
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I think you're on to something when you say "the pits".
I went there in the 70's for a school field trip. Is that place still alive? Did any animals/humans survive?
I went there in the 70's for a school field trip. Is that place still alive? Did any animals/humans survive?
How about native peoples who end up named for the places they were living at the time of colonization like the Navajo?
Think about it dude;
The the tar tar pits.
See anything there that could be removed without changing the meaning?
See also:
Definition of pleonasm
Pleonasm as a rhetorical term
Pleonasm is a way to describe redundancy; linguists usually distinguish between semantic pleonasm, which is what's happening in La Brea Tar Pits, and grammatical pleonasm, which is even more language dependent.
I've got a friend who pretty much twitches every time someone refers to an "ATM machine."
Okay, that works.
I always thought it kind of funny that a whole group of people (that held a nice, noble and meaningful name for their own group) would end up called, essentially, "the big field" or the "mud-brick-structure".
It also goes on the other way, for example the word "Carib" is where we got "Cannibal" thanks to an association of said aboriginal group with certain alimentary quirks.