Speculative Grammarian Volume CLXIV, Number 3 May 2012 The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our august journal is now available. This issue includes many excellent articles, including a fascinating look at culture and grammar, a look back in time at linguistic art, and a look at the final installment of the collected wisdom of linguists—along with the usual collection of letters from our readers, puzzles, advertisements, and more... Next time (June 2012), 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.

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