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Speculative Grammarian

Volume CLVII, Number η
Summer Puzzle Mega Issue
July 2009

For your very own linguistic puzzlement and the continued confounding of linguists, polyglots, and puzzlers everywhere, this very special “Summer Puzzle Mega Issue” of Speculative Grammarian is now available. This issue is comprised of more than two dozen classic and original puzzle types, including acrostics, crosswords, cryptograms, drop quotes, jumbles, logic puzzles, math puzzles, rebuses, visual puzzles, word puzzles, word searches, several unclassifiable puzzles, two new Linguistically-Themed Pseudo-Nihonese puzzles—FonoFutoshiki and HashiWordakero—a new Quasi-Linguistic Pseudo-Germanic puzzle—the Rasmus Rask puzzle—and last, but not least, several instances of a new type of game—Mad Libitum—that many should find reminiscent of their first word game as a child.

Next time (August 2009), we will have another all-new issue of Speculative Grammarian.

      Speculative Grammarian, Vol CLVII, No η

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—so 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

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