A redundancy can be repetition or repeated use of a word or expression to express an idea, as well as the excessive abundance of anything. The word, as such, comes from the Latin redundantia.
Redundancies, in language, are ways of expressing things by repeating or reiterating certain words, ideas or concepts, to emphasize the message to be transmitted. It is an expressive resource.
In information theory, redundancy is considered to be a message property according to which, thanks to the existence of predictable parts or repetitions that do not really provide new information, the rest of the message can be inferred. It is, above all, a fundamental communication strategy to avoid misunderstandings or errors in decoding.
The same can be said of phrases such as “Tell Maria to go down” (it is impossible to “go down”, so “Tell Maria to go down” would already make sense), “Mom mopped the whole house with the mop "(the tool used to mop is a mop, so it mentions both is unnecessary)," last August 5th ran the Marathon of the city "(not to mention necessary" last ", suffice to say the Friday, August 5, since it is already known that this date has already passed)
Redundancy is not always bad, it all depends on the intention that the sender wants to give, saying the same thing, but in different words, it can help to have a better message or simply emphasize what he wants to convey. However, in most cases you fall into redundancy inadvertently (by mistake) which results in the message being repetitive and boring, losing brevity and precision.
Redundancy is very common in spoken language, such as writing, they are often not aware of. However, it is important to analyze what is said and written, so as not to fall into this error.
Redundancy is an essential part of the English language, and in this case it is not an error ignored by much of society, but a linguistic issue that significantly differentiates it from Spanish. A very striking feature of the British language is that it has many synonyms for verbs that in Spanish are generally represented with one or two words; It should be noted that this information refers to the part of both languages that is used daily.
