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Ai-Fan from Germany Since: Jan, 2018 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
#1: Sep 27th 2024 at 7:41:41 AM

[2] says:

"The main character in The Lion King (1994) is a lion named Simba. Simba is the Swahili word for lion - so he's a lion named Lion"

Is this redundancy?

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#3: Sep 27th 2024 at 1:14:08 PM

I wouldn’t consider it an example. Department of Redundancy Department is a text/dialogue trope about information being pointlessly repeated. Simba is merely an example of A Dog Named "Perro". A name doesn’t necessarily have to be informative—A Dog Named "Cat" is also a trope for a reason.

Edited by jandn2014 on Sep 27th 2024 at 4:14:18 AM

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#4: Sep 27th 2024 at 1:30:08 PM

This thread might be better for questions like this.

Anyway, that's definitely A Dog Named "Perro". It would be closer to Department of Redundancy Department if, for example, Simba had a title of "The lion king of the lions" (when just "the lion king" or "the king of the lions" would suffice).

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