If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
HB!!
05.11.2025 23:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0[Werner Herzog voice] i will give it a burl
05.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0HWHAT
28.10.2025 07:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
whenever I want to be completely mesmerised I stare at Dean Koontz’s Instagram page
27.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
black and white newspaper article showing a frog near a set of pearls. Headline reads: FROG’S TASTE IN PEARLS
when I wear an ironed shirt to the office
23.10.2025 11:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0[wistfully] 1 1 was a racehorse, 2 2 was one too …
23.10.2025 11:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Vá para o inferno!!
15.10.2025 12:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jair Bolsonaro hospitalised again after drinking contaminated ground water
14.10.2025 08:58 — 👍 108 🔁 9 💬 24 📌 3
inside you are two Glens
10.08.2025 06:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is incredible (hope I go like Pietro)
23.07.2025 10:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0so fun; so libellous
12.07.2025 10:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Nice work finding NONCE, which only 48% of players have found.
winner’s mindset
06.07.2025 11:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Facebook? Oh it’s good again
23.05.2025 11:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
honestly not sure where to turn after seeing this Australian Twenty20 shirt appear in a Casey Frey video
15.05.2025 11:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
good time to get your novel about a literature professor who keeps having to dodge the advances of his most beautiful students published
28.04.2025 09:34 — 👍 76 🔁 16 💬 6 📌 2
Frasier Crane doing the cool Sonic pose. The background is sort of a boho beige which I thought fitting.
31.01.2025 03:02 — 👍 4793 🔁 996 💬 123 📌 55
TV screen with a graphic on it reading “SONIC DECEPTION”
catching up on my stories
25.04.2025 11:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0yeah. i want to "archive" an email. it wasn't an accident. i clicked that on purpose, because of how much i love to "archive" an email.
19.04.2025 02:28 — 👍 914 🔁 89 💬 16 📌 3he’s coming for Tim Winton’s gold auspost.com.au/postcode/6108
09.04.2025 09:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A small metal plate mounted on a brick wall that has the words HOSE COCK engraved on it.
There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see
09.04.2025 09:14 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Still from a tv news report titled FISH & CHIP PARTY. The man himself is working the decks while shouting an answer into a reporter’s proffered mic. People are gathered around dancing.
Fat Boy Slim is in town and tonight he played a free set INSIDE A FISH N CHIP SHOP
19.03.2025 10:38 — 👍 116 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 6
sure why not
09.03.2025 11:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
anyone done this yet
07.03.2025 11:30 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0zooted on that dank prune
06.03.2025 07:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wordle clue reads: SIMPSON FAMILY MEMBERS WITH FIRST LETTER CHANGED Answers read: BAGGIE, BARGE, COMER, PISA
yeah righto
27.02.2025 06:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0this is so interesting!
27.02.2025 01:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’d be more interested in the 90s www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
23.02.2025 10:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0