Redo involves doing something again, usually to correct a mistake or repair something.
Remake is a verb whose etymological origin is found in the Latin word refacere . The action refers to doing again something that is poorly done or that has broken or decomposed. Redo, on the other hand, is also to remedy or repair .
For example: “The teacher ordered me to redo my homework since she realized that it was copied from a classmate,” “Your mother has the right to rebuild her life with another man,” “The flood forced the Government to redo dozens of homes.” that he was about to deliver to the citizens."
Redo as a material or symbolic action
Redo can be a material action. Suppose a man is making a wooden table and accidentally breaks one of its legs. Faced with this contingency, you will be forced to remake the leg that you broke (that is, you will have to build it again).
In another context , the action of redoing can be symbolic. It is said that a person rebuilds their life when they make decisions that radically modify their existence. This is the case of those who form a couple again after divorcing or those who make the decision to emigrate to another country: “Juan rebuilt his life with Marta twenty years ago,” “In Spain I lost everything I had: I'm going to settle in “Finland to rebuild my life.”
Leave the past behind to start again
Some people object to the validity of the expression "remaking my life " since it is not about rebuilding it, but about taking it in a new direction. Needless to say, it is a subjective observation, and ultimately everyone has the freedom to describe the stages they go through as they wish.
After having made many mistakes, or a deep disappointment, we like to think that we can start again, leave the past behind and become new individuals. That is why we talk about redoing, and not about "changing course" , since this last expression speaks of staying in the same phase, of modifying our perspective within the same scenario, and does not satisfy that need to turn the page.
There are computer programs that offer the alternative of redoing an action.
Redo practical work
Sometimes, redoing something can be an order issued by an authority when they are not satisfied with a result. A teacher may ask a student to redo practical work, while the boss may ask an employee to redo a business plan.
This last case also reflects a subtle difference between the first idea that the term redo evokes in us and the true result of the action: redoing a practical work is not taking all its pieces and putting it back together, but perhaps making a new one, but better than the first
A resource in computing
Many computer tools offer the possibility of redoing something after having undone it. This last function is the most used, and consists of returning a document or project to the point where it was before our most recent action ; For example: in a word processor, it is normal that when you press the shortcut assigned to undo or select this function from the corresponding menu, the last word or character entered disappears, among other possibilities, depending on the program's configuration.
We need to undo an action when we make a mistake or in a case where we think of a way to improve what we just did. However, many times we undo something that, after thinking about it better, we want to have it again, and for this there is the redo function. As expected, both options depend on various factors, among which is the amount of memory that the operating system allocates to the application to store the actions that we can undo and redo; In some programs, the user is free to specify the maximum number, which is usually around 30.