redundancy problem?

[palinkasocsi]

Dear Friends,

Look at the following:

Similarly to other neo-Gricean conceptions, however, Attardo’s theory has its own drawbacks, too.

I just wonder, whether the "too" in the end is redundancy because of "similarly" in the beginning.

Thanks a lot.

Palinkasocsi

[Marius Hancu]

Are you checking your postings? Why is all this stuff coming up?

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It presents major problems in reading.

Pls clean them up.

You didn't have it before.

[OddThomas]

The primary purpose of too as an adverb is to show redundancy. (I did not mean to be silly.) Too means in addition [to whatever else], which is by its very nature a redundant position.

Troublesome redundancies occur when one word or phrase has already adequately performed the semantic work, and another is added without justification. For example, In addition to Bob and Tim, Jack's brother helped on this project too.

In your sentence, similarly to does not mean in addition. Rather, it means in the manner of, in the same way as, or simply, like. Further on, too means also, placing Attardo's theory among those with drawbacks.

Fully analyzed, the sentence can be interpreted this way:Like other neo-Gricean conceptions, however, Attardo’s theory has its own drawbacks, also.

[OddThomas]

By the way, similarly to should have raised a question, should it not? Why did the author not use similar to?

I think this is a better question than the redundancy one. :cool:

[palinkasocsi]

Thank you OddThomas! Great explanations!

Marius!

I do check my posts. The redundancy sentence was copied from a .docx. Having done that I realized the problem and tried to go back and reedit it but there were no other font options, so I could not change that.

Palinkasocsi

[Marius Hancu]

>I could not change that

Dear Friends,

Look at the following:

Similarly to other neo-Gricean conceptions, however, Attardo’s theory has its own drawbacks, too.

I just wonder, whether the "too" in the end is redundancy because of "similarly" in the beginning.

Thanks a lot.

Palinkasocsi

Not true. Look at the above:

I quoted you and was able to edit all the garbage out.

[OddThomas]

Play nice. :)

Maybe a "how-to" is in order.