At the risk of launching an ultra-annoying copy editor attack, I note that "afternoon matinee" is redundant. (A matinee is an afternoon performance.) I only say this because, like yourself, I have journalistic training in my background, and I was taught to avoid redundancy (probably to reduce keystrokes on a teletype.) Just a heartfelt comment from the Department of Redundancy Department...
At the risk of launching an ultra-annoying copy editor attack, I note that "afternoon matinee" is redundant. (A matinee is an afternoon performance.) I only say this because, like yourself, I have journalistic training in my background, and I was taught to avoid redundancy (probably to reduce keystrokes on a teletype.) Just a heartfelt comment from the Department of Redundancy Department...
ReplyDeleteI know. It just sounded better to me.
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