Valga la redundancia

Question

I have just answered something where "amasar la masa" was used. This was the translation of "knead the dough". As you may see, the words "knead" and " dough" don't belong to the same family of words. They are very different. In Spanish we have "amasar", to knead and "masa"", dough. Both have the same root.
When people speak they sometimes repeat words of the same root. This is considered not elegant. Many TV presenters or radio journalists sometimes say: intensificar la intensificación, beber la bebida, jugar la jugada, etc. This is considered redundant so they usually say : "valga la redundancia" meaning they have realized they have repeated a word but what's done is done. Is there something like this in English?

Por favor corrijan cualquier corrección, valga la redundancia! jajaja

Answer 1

How about this one? Do you have any non-dairy creamer in the house? Look carefully at the label. It is very likely that it says “contains milk” in fine print.

Answer 2

Off the top of my head, I can think of redundancies that are not considered inelegant in English:

• He slept the sleep of the dead.
• It took a long time to build the building.
• The server served me a large serving of ice cream.
• He drank the whole drink.

But I can also think of some that I don't hear and to me seem awkward:

• He ran a good race. (Not: He raced a good race.)
• Let's have a drink. (Not: Let's drink a drink.)

I never hear "preguntar una pregunta" -- always "hacer." Would this be inelegant like "amasar la masa," or even moreso? And is there a more elegant way to say "amasar la masa"?

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Edit

Did I answer the wrong question?

Suddenly I wonder whether you were merely asking whether valga la redundancia has an equivalent in English. I'm not aware of an expresión fija. These are used:

Pardon the redundancy
Excuse the repetition
Sorry for the repetition
etc.

And occasionally there's a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Department of Redundancy Department.

Excuse the repetition is a good one that we sometimes use! :) - FELIZ77, Jun 28, 2017

A cat toy ...... maybe it should be for bees???? lol - polenta1, Jun 28, 2017

Answer 3

That expression is correct and common, but it is only shown a lack of knowing of the Spanish language. It is a way to say: I have a limited vocabulary but i cannot do anymore :(.

Spanish has a lot of words..

Answer 4

So Spanish has a fixed expression while English speakers are more free about it.

Answer 5

Polenta:

You have several good answers in terms of what could be said.

I'll share with you my immediate thought when you asked the question:

Many American TV and radio personalities would probably be too conceited to apologize, in any way, for this type of mistake. In most cases, I don't think they would say anything. They would just try to not do it very often.