[Pleonasm and tautology are not synonyms]
The author comes to the conclusion that speakers tend to consider that pleonasm and tautology are one and the same thing. In this article, the author forwards a semantic clarification of the two terms on a gnoseological basis: in the case of pleonasm, it is found that thinking stagnates (remains the same, adds nothing), despite the verbal inflation (e.g. a conlucra împreună / in English “to cooperate together/to collaborate together”), while in the case of tautology, thinking seems to progress (a child is a child = "the child is innocent"). Pleonasm, therefore, is a language error which must be eradicated, while tautology should be accepted as the expression of a valid thinking.
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