Michael Pleyer is a student at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He’s studying English and German Philology as well as Psychology and hopes to be done with it in Autumn 2011. He was born in the beautiful city of Freiburg im Breisgau in the south-west of Germany but grew up in a little village on the northwestern slopes of the Harz mountain range in Lower Saxony.

Unlike his parents he can’t speak Swabian but tries to make up for his lack of dialect knowledge by frequently interrogating people (including all of his friends and people at parties) on their use of prepositions and vocabulary. That is, when he’s not telling them about some new experiments in the field of developmental psychology, comparative psychology, or cognitive science that he read about on somebody’s blog. As most of his friends for some strange reason do not share his fascination for language evolution and other geeky stuff he started a blog, Shared Symbolic Storage, and now will also be writing here at Replicated Typo, probably focussing on the same topics he usually annoys his friends with.

Oh, and he really likes penguins, because they are cute AND awesome.