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Loving each other and marrying each other are two totally different things.

Is 'each other' redundant?

Many thanks.

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Yes and no. You could leave them both out.

Loving and marrying are two totally different things.

The sentence is a little flat, it needs a little something.

Loving each other and marrying each other are two totally different things.

The 'eachs' provide a little bite, a little extra rhythm.

Joe(Dah-dah da-dah da and DAH-dahda da-dah da) Nation

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Thanks, Joe.

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I am afraid I don't quite agree with Joe, because I think that this sentence

Loving and marrying are two totally different things.

is perfectly good and avoids two kinds of stylistic fault present in the first one, namely wordiness and repetition. It is succinct. On the subject of whether I agree with the sentiment expressed therein, I shall remain silent.

Northern English dialect advice on choosing a wife: "Kissing don't last. Cooking do."

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Contrex:

That's that the yes and no part.

English can be bare bones.

or

English, and therefore all of it's varying accents, dialects and forms, can be written with fulsome flowing floods, rivers really, of multi-syllabic, thesaurus searched, dictionary selected, meaning loaded or nuanced, words.

I have no idea if that is a quality unique to English.

Joe(I only know a very little Indonesian and a sprinkle or two of Spanish)Nation

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One might say that "two' is a redundancy.

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solipsister wrote:

One might say that "two' is a redundancy.

Good point.

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Joe(a sprinkling of)Nation

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Joe Nation wrote:

Joe(I only know a very little Indonesian and a sprinkle or two of Spanish)Nation

Then we'll not likely catch you being 'redundant' in Indonesian and Spanish, eh, Joe? Smile

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contrex wrote:

I am afraid I don't quite agree with Joe, because I think that this sentence

Loving and marrying are two totally different things.

is perfectly good and avoids two kinds of stylistic fault present in the first one, namely wordiness and repetition. It is succinct. On the subject of whether I agree with the sentiment expressed therein, I shall remain silent.

Northern English dialect advice on choosing a wife: "Kissing don't last. Cooking do."

Hi Contrex

Loving each other and marrying each other are two totally different things.

Your sentence is without the words 'each other'. Does that mean that the phrase in unnecessary?

Many thanks.

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Yoong Liat wrote:

Loving each other and marrying each other are two totally different things.

Your sentence is without the words 'each other'. Does that mean that the phrase in unnecessary?

Yes it does mean that. I thought I (abd others) had made that clear. Not only uneccessary but bordering on undesirable.

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Thanks, everyone, for your replies.

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contrex wrote:

Yoong Liat wrote:
Loving each other and marrying each other are two totally different things.

Your sentence is without the words 'each other'. Does that mean that the phrase in unnecessary?

Yes it does mean that. I thought I (abd others) had made that clear. Not only uneccessary but bordering on undesirable.

Hardly unnecessary, Contrext. Without 'each other' the discussion is aimed at a general situation. With 'each other', it's more specific. It all depends on what you want to say.

There are examples of redundancy in virtually all language; note in your sentence.

Loving two people and marrying two people are two totally different things.

Are 'two people' also redundant?

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