Sunday, January 01, 2006

An added bonus?

I am currently revising an FCA article. I wanted to write "As an added bonus..." but then backtracked to write the leaner, seemingly non-redundant "As a bonus...".

INSCITIA:

Does is it make any sense to say "an added bonus"? Isn't the very meaning of "bonus" something that is "added"? Does an "added bonus" amount to a "bonus bonus"?

COGITATIO:

I know (I think) that in Latin "bonus" simply means "a good." But I think in modern English, "bonus" carries the idea of an extra, even gratuitous, good. As such, it is redundant to speak of an "added bonus." An unadorned bonus is bonus enough, no?

RESPONSUM:

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would agree with you, however, in speech I often err on the side of berevity. After all a wise man once told me, never use a large word when a diminuative one will do.

-e.b.

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