By PHILIP OCHIENGMore by this AuthorTautology is the habit by East Africa’s users of English of wasting words by saying the same thing twice in the same semantic breath. A good example took place on page 15 of the March 6 issue of The Standard daily. An overenthusiastic but misguided subeditor advised as follows in a screaming five-column headline: “Give incentives to spur retirement saving”. A subeditor, in other words, is a desk-bound word technician and layout artist. THEY ANNOYIt is important to avoid repetitions of that kind because they tend to annoy the more socially and aesthetically conscious readers.

Source: Daily Nation March 10, 2017 20:55 UTC