Just going to disrupt the usual flow of things by depositing some lonks I'd been blathering about to various folks:
Reddit-spoof horror-comedy short films Web Watchers https://www.youtube.com/@dustinkcouch (each standalone but with continuing elements, so better to watch the three in the order they were posted)
Story where the language gradually moves backwards in time to Old English - how far can you make any sense of it? https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english