Poetic Insults: The Lost Art of Flyting
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…
Tag: alliteration
Word Avalanches: Sentences That Repeat the Same Sound
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”...