Dead Lingo
← graveyard/ from the starter crypt
office of the lingo coroner

Certificate of
Linguistic Death

✠   filed in perpetuity   ✠
⸻ Phrase of Record ⸻

“woke”

Coroner and community disagree.

DISPUTED
⸻ Status of Decedent ⸻
Disputed
⸻ Peak Era ⸻
2010s
⸻ Cause of Death ⸻
Captured and inverted by its opponents.
⸻ Confidence of Autopsy ⸻
50%
⸻ Meaning ⸻
Alert to injustice. The word is now contested and often used as an insult by people who do not mean that.
⸻ Modern Translation ⸻
“Depends entirely who is speaking.”
M. Hollow
attending coroner
Sep 17, 2026
date of filing
✠ cast your mark ✠

The Wake

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 ☈

Where does this live?

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 ⚖

The coroner can be wrong

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

✎ witness statements ✎

Testimony

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

Who killed it?

Nobody has been blamed yet.

one accusation each · no names, only categories

No one has testified yet.

⸻ send a eulogy ⸻
https://dead-lingo-3lauu365sa-uc.a.run.app/phrase/woke

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

buried nearby