Michael Macy

@michaelmacy2891 - Author

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101 Totally Unnecessary Redundancies (plus 30 spares, just in case)

From "unsolved mystery" to "artificial prosthesis," redundancies turn 2D black and white language into 3D living color. That’s why we are "surrounded on all sides" by "tiny specks," "usual routines," "foreign imports," “brief moments,” and "annoying pests" (not to mention "hot water heaters"). ...

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About me

Michael is a Cornell prof whose obsession with redundancies reflects a deeper fascination with language as a window into how people interact. He commutes to Cornell from Canada where he cooks, skis, works on his latte art, debates his teenage daughter, and writes an occasional sonnet to his wife.

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