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1. Snot-Caked Coke Nuggets XXIII—Advertisement (10 visits)

ADVERTISEMENT Snot-Caked Coke Nuggets XXIII. As part of our ongoing series resurrecting the forgotten gems of American disco, Cosmotel Records is pleased to present Snot-Caked Coke Nuggets XXIII: Universal Dance Grammar. With the end of the Linguistics Wars in 1975, young linguists were ready to break out their dancing shoes, rayon/orlon/nylon/acrylic digs and duds, and gold and silver chains, then strut out onto the dance floor in style and BOOGIE DOWN!!! This album contains many of the greatest hits and unheralded wonders of the disco era in college towns with linguistics departments all around the country, many of which haven’t been played publicly since X-Bar Techno ... [ more ]


2. Vol CLXV, No 1 (5 visits)

SPECULATIVE GRAMMARIAN, Volume CLXV, Number 1; July 2012, MANAGING EDITOR Trey Jones SENIOR EDITOR Keith Slater EDITOR EMERITUS Tim Pulju Speculative Grammarian, Vol CLXV, No 1 CONSULTING EDITORS David J. Peterson Bill Spruiell, ASSOCIATE EDITORS Madalena Cruz-Ferreira Daniela Müller Mikael Thompson, EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES Cem Bozsahin Jonathan Downie Lev Michael Mary Pearce Mary Shapiro Sheri Wells-Jensen, COMPTROLLER GENERAL Joey Whitford Needs More Copula ... [ more ]


3. About Us (5 visits)

Speculative Grammarian and SpecGram.com. Our Story. The august journal Speculative Grammarian has a long, rich, and varied history, weaving an intricate and subtle tapestry from disparate strands of linguistics, philology, history, politics, science, technology, botany, pharmacokinetics, computer science, the mathematics of humor, basket weaving, archery, glass blowing, roller coaster design, and bowling, among numerous other, less obvious fields. SpecGram, as it is known to devotees and sworn enemies alike, has for centuries sought to bring together the greatest yet least understood minds of the time, embedding itself firmly in the cultural and psychological matrix of the global society while ... [ more ] Podcast!


4. Smart Chimp Languages, Inc.—Advertisement (4 visits)

ADVERTISEMENT Smart Chimp Languages, Inc.. We Care About Our Customers as Much as You Care About Yours! . Are you tired of dealing with smarmy human translators who talk back and ask awkward questions? Are you paying more for your translations than you spend on biscuits? Do you wish you could source interpreters 24/7 for less than your subscription to Management Nonsense Quarterly? Look no further! Here at Smart Chimp Languages, we have found the ideal answer to all your interpreting and translation worries: monkeys! They are fun, they are fast and best of all, we pay them peanuts! This means we can pass the savings (and the shavings) on to you! Want to have 16,000 words translated in a single hour? No ... [ more ]


5. JLSSCNC—Vol I, No 1—Linguist of Fortune (4 visits)

Linguist of Fortune. The Journal of the Linguistic Society of South-Central New Caledonia. Volume I, Number 1. November 1990. Linguist of Fortune: The Journal of the Linguistic Society of South-Central New Caledonia, ... [ more ]


6. The Collected Wisdom of Linguists, Part Β—The SpecGram Council of Sages (4 visits)

The Collected Wisdom of Linguists, Part Β. Aphoristically Conveyed from Ancient Sages. Collected and presented for your edification by, The SpecGram Council of Sages, including Jouni Maho, Bill Spruiell, Keith Slater, Daniela Müller, David J. Peterson, and Trey Jones. In this second of three installments, we share with you the proverbial wisdom of ancient sages of philology and linguistics, honed and refined through the ages by the folk wisdom and common sense of the masses. Should you sense a contradiction, recall also that “Proverbs run in pairs.” ... Vowels were meant to be broken. Same schwa, different day. Don’t count your rules before you rank them. Descriptive times call for ... [ more ] Podcast! Book!


7. Vol CLXIX, No 2 (4 visits)

Speculative Grammarian Volume CLXIX, Number 2 Tenth Digiversary Issue, Presented in association with Panini Press ❦पा, ... Trey Jones, Managing Editor, Keith Slater, Senior Editor, Bill Spruiell, Consulting Editor, Tim Pulju, Editor Emeritus; Associate Editors: Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, Mikael Thompson, Sheri Wells-Jensen; Editorial Associates: Kenny Baclawski, Pete Bleackley, Virginia Bouchard, Florian Breit, Bethany Carlson, Jonathan Downie, Jouni Maho, Tel Monks, Tuuli Mustasydän, Cathal Peelo, David J. Peterson, Callum Robson, Zac Smith, Tangent Wong, Decennial Editors, Bryan Allen, Aya Katz, Kean Kaufmann, Ken Miner, Daniela Müller, Gabe Olsen, Freya Shipley, Joey Whitford, Are We Tenure Yet?; February 2014 ... [ more ]


8. French Love, Poodles and Google Translate: A New Methodology to Build Language Families—Isabelle Tellier (4 visits)

French Love, Poodles and Google Translate: A New Methodology to Build Language Families. Isabelle Tellier. There are many legends about Machine Translation. One of the most famous states that, in its first age in the fifties, when for obvious Cold War reasons it focused on English-Russian translations, an artificial device provided with the (biblical) sentence “The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” was asked to translate it into Russian and then back into English and gave “The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten”. Another similar one evokes the sentence “Out of sight, out of mind” which, translated into Chinese (or Japanese) and then back into English, supposedly became ... [ more ]


9. Vol CLXXXIII, No 2 (4 visits)

Speculative Grammarian Volume CLXXXIII, Number 2 Brought to you by... Occam’s Safety Razor™ ... Trey Jones, Editor-in-Chief; Keith Slater, Executive Editor; Mikael Thompson, Senior Editor; Jonathan Downie, Contributing Editor; Associate Editors: Pete Bleackley, Mark Mandel; Assistant Editors: Virginia Bouchard, Emily Davis, Vincent Fish, Deak Kirkham, Yuval Wigderson; Editorial Associates: Samuel Andersson, Florian Breit, Chris Brew, Bethany Carlson, Tuuli Mustasydän, Mary Shapiro; Joey Whitford, Comptroller General; Suppositio Confusa Tantum for Almost Everyone!; December 2018 ... [ more ]


10. Vol CLXIX, No 1 (4 visits)

Speculative Grammarian Volume CLXIX, Number 1 ... Trey Jones, Managing Editor, Keith Slater, Senior Editor, Bill Spruiell, Consulting Editor, Tim Pulju, Editor Emeritus; Associate Editors: Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, Mikael Thompson, Sheri Wells-Jensen; Editorial Associates: Kenny Baclawski, Pete Bleackley, Virginia Bouchard, Florian Breit, Bethany Carlson, Jonathan Caws-Elwitt, Jonathan Downie, Tel Monks, Daniela Müller, Tuuli Mustasydän, Cathal Peelo, David J. Peterson, Callum Robson, Zac Smith, Tangent Wong; Joey Whitford, Comptroller General; Watch Out Guys— We’ve Got a Bad-Asterisk Over Here; January 2014 ... [ more ]


11. Archives (4 visits)

SpecGram Archives. A word from our Senior Archivist, Holger Delbrück: While bringing aging media to the web and hence the world is truly a labor of love, SpecGram tries the passion of even the most ardent admirer. Needless to say, we’ve fallen behind schedule. At every turn, the authors found in the pages of this hallowed journal stretch credibility with their gratuitous font mongering—first it was the IPA, then a few non-standard transcription systems, then Greek, and not just the alphabet, but the entire diacritical mess, and now I’ve got some god-forsaken Old Church Slavonic glyph sitting on my desk that no one can even name, and which would give the Unicode Consortium ... [ more ]


12. Vol CLXVI, No 2 (4 visits)

Speculative Grammarian Volume CLXVI, Number 2 ... Trey Jones, Managing Editor, Keith Slater, Senior Editor, Bill Spruiell, Consulting Editor, Tim Pulju, Editor Emeritus; Associate Editors: Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, David J. Peterson, Mikael Thompson; Editorial Associates: Pete Bleackley, Cem Bozsahin, Kathleen Brady, Florian Breit, Jonathan Downie, Adam Graham, Daniela Müller, Mary Pearce, Chris Niswander, Callum Robson, Mary Shapiro, Adam Tallman, Rachael Tatman, Sheri Wells-Jensen; Joey Whitford, Comptroller General; Language, Thought, and Real Estate; January 2013 ... [ more ]


13. Ministry of Propaganda (4 visits)

The SpecGram Ministry of Propaganda. Welcome to the SpecGram Ministry of Propaganda. The SpecGram Archive Elves™ have undertaken a project to digitize and share a sheaf of early 20th century SpecGram propaganda posters, which were used during the Great Linguistic War and the Second Linguistic War to encourage linguists everywhere to keep a stiff upper lip and a sense of humor during those trying times. We provide the digitized posters here for you to enjoy, retrospect on, and share. Select a poster to see a higher quality image, and for links to share on social media, to email friends, and to view or download the highest quality version of the image. ... Read SpecGram Every Month! ... [ more ]


14. Bōard Gam̄es for̄ Linḡuists—Macron̄ Bradleȳ (3 visits)

Macron̄ Bradleȳ. presents. Bōard Gam̄es for̄ Linḡuists. ... Monophthong Monopoly—In this popular board game, players aim to accumulate as many distinctive features from autosegmental tiers as they can into a single monophthongal vowel. The Game of Life, Living, Lives, Lived, and Livers—This game for school-aged children leads them through the decisions and events of the basic morphology of Life. Rasmus Risk—Conquer the world of philology simply by rolling dice! In this accessible strategy game, players roll IPA dice (provided) and conquer neighboring countries if the consonants they roll are likely to ... [ more ]


15. Hazards of Fieldwork Among the Hiithrobnsn—William Moore-Crusoe (3 visits)

Hazards of Fieldwork Among the Hiithrobnsn. William Moore-Crusoe, Winter Academy of Language. The Hiithrobnsn live in a remote, marshy and inhospitable region of Guyana. A traditional greeting amongst them is “Mind where you walk,” wise advice, as it is vitally important to make sure that you remain on what passes for dry land locally. Stray into the mire and you risk being bitten, stung, infected or electrocuted by the various unpleasant creatures that dwell therein. The Hiithrobnsn have 27 words for “swamp” and all of them are pejorative. They can be used as attitudinals conveying various degrees of displeasure, ranging from mild irritation to a declaration of war. Despite this, they are a ... [ more ] Podcast!


16. The SpecGram Linguistic Advice Collective (3 visits)

The SpecGram Linguistic Advice Collective. ... Are you in a world of linguistic hurt? The SpecGram Linguistic Advice Collective (SLAC) will offer you empirical, empathic, emphatic advice you can use!* Remember, if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, then you don’t need advice! So, if you need advice, trust us—and cut yourself some SLAC! ... Dear SLACkers, I know that reconstructing protoforms is all about finding the ‘most probable’ path that converges pastwards based on attested reflexes and what is known about language change, but I have a problem. Every time I do this, the resulting reconstructed language, as a whole, seems massively ... [ more ]


17. CALL-Emulation as CALL-Transitioning Strategy: A Pilot Study—Oliver Jormid and Peetr Otkinsoover (3 visits)

CALL-Emulation as CALL-Transitioning Strategy: A Pilot Study. Oliver Jormid and Peetr Otkinsoover, Grand Traverse Institute for Linguistics. Introduction. The growing reliance of U.S. institutions on distance learning programs has led to an ever-increasing dependence on Computer Assisted Language-Learning (CALL) programs among departments that provide language instruction. Despite the many benefits of CALL technology, it is quite clear that interacting with computer programs and interacting with native speakers is quite different, and that learners accustomed to the former may have difficulty when engaging in the latter. Recently, Varchar and Setnum() (2008) have argued that one way of ameliorating the ... [ more ]


18. Vol CLIV, No 3 (3 visits)

SPECULATIVE GRAMMARIAN, Volume CLIV, Number 3; July 2008, MANAGING EDITOR, SENIOR EDITOR, EDITOR EMERITUS, Trey Jones, Keith Slater, Tim Pulju, Speculative Grammarian, Vol CLIV, No 3, 2|S| > |S|, CONSULTING EDITORS, Ken Miner, David J. Peterson, Bill Spruiell, ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Adam Baker, James Crippen, Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, Siva Kalyan, Idan Landau, Jouni Maho, Carin Marais, Peter Racz, Major Sharpe, Freya Shipley, Erin Taylor, Mikael Thompson, Daniele Virgillito, CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Kean Kaufmann, Joey Whitford, VICTORES A VICTIS VISI Османска империя, Lochlannachs, Saeson, Yersinia pestis, Zhaagnaash, ... [ more ]


19. Vol CLXVI, No 1 (3 visits)

SPECULATIVE GRAMMARIAN, Volume CLXVI, Number 1; November 2012, MANAGING EDITOR Trey Jones SENIOR EDITOR Keith Slater EDITOR EMERITUS Tim Pulju Speculative Grammarian, Vol CLXVI, No 1 CONSULTING EDITORS David J. Peterson Bill Spruiell, ASSOCIATE EDITORS Madalena Cruz-Ferreira Daniela Müller Mikael Thompson, EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES Pete Bleackley Cem Bozsahin Kathleen Brady Florian Breit Jonathan Downie Adam Graham Mary Pearce Callum Robson Mary Shapiro Adam Tallman Rachael Tatman Sheri Wells-Jensen, COMPTROLLER GENERAL Joey Whitford Effing Infixes, How Do They Work? ... [ more ]


20. Vol CXLVIII, No 4 (3 visits)

Speculative Grammarian. Volume CXLVIII, Number 4. March 1998. Speculative Grammarian, Vol CXLVIII, No 4 EDITOR, Tim Pulju ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Aya Katz, John Newell, Keith Slater, EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES, Dave Fleck, Victor T. Jones III, Donald Francis Reindl, Sérgio Meira de Santa Cruz Oliveira, I don't reckon you will find anything on Judge Irwin, ... [ more ]


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