Eddos (was: Is "both ... but also" used in English today?)

Bob Lieblich writes:
> I was careful to use qualifiers.

And I was careful to use a smiley.

> Perhaps percentages would have been
> clearer: If ninety percent of native speakers make the same error,
> it's not an error any more. If ninety percent do it the way I say is
> correct and ten percent do it the other way, the way of the ten
> percent is still an error.

Fair enough.

> Elsewhere, Chris posted lots of uses of "both ... but also." Man, do
> they sound awful!

Agreed. Actually, what they look like to me is "half-finished edit"
errors -- the sort of thing you get when you back up and change the
wording of part of an already-written sentence and forget to make the
corresponding change somewhere else. (Errors similar in form are
also common in speech, of course, but the mechanism is different.)

It occurs to me that, now that computers have made it so much easier
to make this sort of error in writing, we need a new and shorter name
for it.

I propose "eddo", with plural "eddos".

(That's half of "edit", a second D to make it clear that the E is short,
and the ending of "typo".)
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Let us knot coin gnu werds huitch
msb@xxxxxxx are spelld rong." -- Rik Fischer Smoody

My text in this article is in the public domain, including "eddo".
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