Redundancy alert
David Lloyd says Bangladesh are off to a "cacophony of noise". Aren't all cacophonies of noise? Unless its being used metaphorically, as in "a cacophony of conflicting fashions". Or am I missing something?
Correction: Oldest error in the book, confusing a redundancy with an oxymoron. I did it in the older title. Thanks to Maithreyi for correcting me.
Correction: Oldest error in the book, confusing a redundancy with an oxymoron. I did it in the older title. Thanks to Maithreyi for correcting me.
Labels: bad commentary, Bangladesh, england, ICC World Cup 2011
posted by Samir Chopra at 7:31 AM
2 Comments:
What you have there is a redundancy, I think, not an oxymoron.
I suppose Mr. Lloyd thinks there can be organised noise and then noise that's a "cacophony." It makes sense, although it's awkward phrasing.
Yargh. I'm an idiot. It's a redundancy allright. Correcting title now.
Thanks.
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