Archive - Dead Language Society

July 2025

“Boy” is a weird word

From baby talk to term of abuse

Jul 30 •

Why you speak more Latin than you think

The Latin words in the ancestor of English

Jul 23 •

How to write poetry like Tolkien

A guide to composing alliterative verse

Jul 19 •

How the alphabet began

And some Dead Language Society lore

Jul 16 •

Why ChatGPT writes like that

A rhetorical analysis of AI “slop”

Jul 9 •

How the Anglo-Saxons learned languages

Their methods are weirdly effective

Jul 5 •

Beowulf Book Club 1: 1–399

Beowulf arrives in Denmark

Jul 4 •

1:55:41

How to get started with Old English poetry

Five poems to read that aren’t Beowulf

Jul 2 •

June 2025

How the Industrial Revolution changed English

Technology and the birth of new dialects

Jun 25 •

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