Grammatical Errors

[SuperPigeon]

Certain errors in grammar have names (split infinitive) etc..
I remember one having a name whereby you say the same thing twice: such as Male Man. You need not use the Male for you have already defined it within man. Does this have a name, or is it merely repetition.

I ask because I believe a Bourgeois Capitalist is one, for they can be regarded as the same thing...

[ttfn]

Tautology

[mike11111]

Tautology

[marval]

Could be tautology

http://dictionary.ref....com/browse/tautology

[factorfiction]

I don't see Bourgeois Capitalist as a tautology.
We know what a capitalist is.
The adjective BOURGEOIS means, in my dictionary,
"1.Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class.
2. Held to be preoccupied with respectability and material values."
A capitalist is likely to be bourgeios but isn't necessarily, and vice versa.
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[jno]

it could also be redundancy - one of the words is redundant, ie not needed - but the word's mostly used about jobs these days. But as factorfiction says, bourgeois capitalist isn't an example; aristocrats and peasants may also be capitalists.

[boxtops]

I'll go with tautology

[MarkRae]

Definitely tautology, though pleonasm would also do...

[jno]

this is another word for it

http://www.google.co....qi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

A redundantly tautologous pleonasm in fact.

[SuperPigeon]

Belated thank you everyone