Pizza Slow, Twitter post from February 16, 2010, 9162406527

What’s the name of the trope of adding redundant modifiers to static states? F.ex: drowned to death, electrocuted to death, worked to death.

Posted on Twitter over 16 years agoon February 16, 2010 - 12:00 AM and archived here at /twitter/2010/02/15/tweet-9162406527/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/twitter/2010/02/15/tweet-9162406527/ in the Twitter collection in both HTML and markdown.

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