“Weird” is a weird word(deadlanguagesociety.com)

49 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 17 comments

How to get started with Old English poetry(deadlanguagesociety.com)

40 points by onthesly 1 year ago | 10 comments

Why English doesn't use accents(deadlanguagesociety.com)

318 points by sandbach 1 year ago | 528 comments

A Dead Language Society newsletter post by Colin Gorrie explaining why English spelling lacks diacritic accents while French uses many.

How far back in time can you understand English?(deadlanguagesociety.com)

634 points by spzb 8 months ago | 335 comments

A Dead Language Society newsletter post by Colin Gorrie presenting an experiment on how far back in time readers can understand earlier forms of English.

The Goths(the-hinternet.com)

48 points by drdee 2 years ago | 25 comments

The Ballad of TIGIT(owlposting.com)

102 points by crescit_eundo 5 months ago | 20 comments