Alliteration & Assonance as a Simple Cipher
Ever wondered if a poem could hold a secret password? This post explores a hypothetical cipher where the key isn't a number, but a pattern of sounds, using poetic devices…
Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Ever wondered if a poem could hold a secret password? This post explores a hypothetical cipher where the key isn't a number, but a pattern of sounds, using poetic devices…
We can read the words of Beowulf, but what did this ancient ancestor of English actually sound like? By using linguistic reconstruction, we can uncover the lost phonetics of Old…
Before the diss tracks and rap battles of today, Norse and Anglo-Saxon warriors sharpened their wits with a different kind of verbal combat: flyting. This lost art of poetic insults…
Word Avalanche: Sentences That Repeat the Same Sound In the colorful landscape of linguistics and playful word usage, a phenomenon known as the “word avalanche”...