Austin W. Spencer wrote: > Actually, the post as a whole illustrates one of the deadly sins of > reviewing: magnifying the importance of minor errors to substitute > for criticism on merits. For instance: smiling *and* grinning? > Isn't that repetitive? No, it is a pleonasm, legitimate in this case for emphasising mood through the use of synonymous words together in the same sentence, cf "keening and wailing". Gil Gil Hardwick <gruagach@highway1.com.au>