Speculative Grammarian Volume CLXVII, Number 2 May 2013 The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our venerable journal is now available. This issue features many excellent articles, including a collection of self-defining Spanish linguistic terms, a new advice column, a grad student shanty from the 1990’s, and the unceasingness of things you didn’t know you didn’t know—along with the usual collection of letters from our readers, book announcements, puzzles, advertisements, and more... Next time (June 2013), we will have another all-new issue of Speculative Grammarian.       Read the current issue. Read back issues.

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We have recently completed our transition from the real world to online: we have finally finished digitizing the tattered remains of our once glorious Archive, re-publishing each issue on the internet. Our new mission is two-fold: First, we will continue to publish the best works of satirical linguistics available anywhere—in various formats, including online publishing, audio podcasts, and micro-blogging. We are, of course, looking for submissions for upcoming issues of SpecGram. Second, we seek to transform other satirical linguistics resources from their current dead-tree-format to a more readily disseminated bit-based format. Our most recent projects have been the conversion of the anthologies Lingua Pranca and Son of Lingua Pranca.

I hope you enjoy your visit with us. We hope you’ll come back again soon. There are always several improvements in the works, and we always appreciate your suggestions and ideas. —Trey Jones Managing Editor, Speculative Grammarian