Pleonasms and neoplasms

I've made up a phrase (which I thought was rather silly but cool :), so I decided to blog it), that being that "pleonasms are multiplying like neoplasms". I actually stumbled across the association because I was once accused, by a teacher of language, of using a pleonastic superlative (when I was attempting to be affirming by telling them that their "apology was most accepted"). I was amused and tried to repeat that to someone else and found myself talking about neoplastic (a word I had in my head somewhere from biological days), at which point I stopped and thought, 'no that's not right'. Here's what the words mean:

Pleonasm:

1. the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.

2. an instance of this, as "free gift" or "true fact".

3. a redundant word or expression.

Neoplasm

1. a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.

2. An abnormal new growth of tissue that grows by cellular proliferation more rapidly than normal, continues to grow after the stimuli that initiated the new growth cease, shows partial or complete lack of structural organisation and functional coordination with the normal tissue, and usually forms a distinct mass of tissue which may be either benign or malignant.

Anyway, so I shall endeavour to minimise the neoplastic use of pleonastic phrases in this blog ...

(And just remember that you read it here first ;) ... And hopefully this mail-in post doesn't look all ridiculous like the last one - which it did - even more ridiculous - so I have just fixed it up and removed all the formatting lingo. It seems like mail in posts aren't going to work for me.)