Yet unborn
Does using "yet" before "unborn" sound redundant? I think "unborn" itself means "hasn't born yet", so yet is unnecessary. Need your informative explanation.
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Don't expect good English in a random Internet meme. "Generations of yet unborn" is wrong. It's "generations yet unborn", no "of".
- Don't expect good English in a random Internet meme.
- "Generations of yet unborn" is wrong.
- It's "generations yet unborn", no "of".
- "Yet unborn" is a historically sound collocation.
- The structure sounds old-fashioned; it is a bit of a fossil.
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Don't expect good English in a random Internet meme. "Generations of yet unborn" is wrong. It's "generations yet unborn", no "of". "Yet unborn" is a historically sound collocation. The structure sounds old-fashioned; it is a bit of a fossil. We don't use "yet" that way any more. "As yet" is usual now, often illiterately expressed as "as of yet". I don't see a problem with "yet unborn" e
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