Certificate of
Linguistic Death

✠ filed in perpetuity ✠

⸻ Phrase of Record ⸻

“bless your heart”

Dead nationally, alive in specific places.

REGIONAL

⸻ Status of Decedent ⸻

Regional

⸻ Peak Era ⸻

uncertain

⸻ Cause of Death ⸻

Carries whichever meaning the speaker intended, and you have to work out which.

⸻ Confidence of Autopsy ⸻

80%

⸻ Meaning ⸻

Sympathy, condescension, or an insult, depending entirely on delivery. Southern.

⸻ Modern Translation ⸻

“Depends on the tone.”

✠ cast your mark ✠

Pay your respects, dispute the autopsy, or testify that the deceased is, in fact, alive.

Each session may add one of each mark. The coroner reads all of them.

☈ sightings ☈

A phrase can be dead nationally and alive on one street. Put a pin in the map.

No sightings recorded. Where do you say this?

report a sighting

⚖ right of appeal ⚖

A verdict is a first opinion. If this one is wrong, say so, and say why.

✎ witness statements ✎

Votes count the crowd. This is where one person gets to say what they actually remember.

Nobody has been blamed yet.

one accusation each · no names, only categories

No one has testified yet.

⸻ send a eulogy ⸻

Paste it into the group chat. The recipient can vote, dispute, or revive directly from the link.