Is ほんの一瞬【いっしゅん】だけ redundant?


When using the phrase `ほんの一瞬`, I somehow feel compelled to insert `だけ`
afterwards. This seems to be somewhat common (over one million hits for
`"ほんの一瞬だけ"` on Google), but does it seem silly in terms of redundancy? Since
`ほんの` and `だけ` seem to have the same meaning, I'm not sure if I should
actually say `ほんの一瞬だけ`, despite the Google results.




Yes it might be redundant and ungrammatical, but I think I say and write that
way quite often... I think I also use 一瞬だけ and ほんの一瞬 but I think I tend to use
ほんの一瞬だけ when I want to emphasize 'only'. I think it's similar to
たった一回だけ/たった一度だけ, which seem also redundant but I use quite often... so maybe
these expressions are rather casual and colloquial.




Yes it might be redundant and ungrammatical, but I think I say and write that
way quite often... I think I also use 一瞬だけ and ほんの一瞬 but I think I tend to use
ほんの一瞬だけ when I want to emphasize 'only'. I think it's similar to
たった一回だけ/たった一度だけ, which seem also redundant but I use quite often... so maybe
these expressions are rather casual and colloquial.

