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1. Archives (7 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 ]


2. Merchandise (7 visits)

Speculative Grammarian Merchandise. Introduction. In order to lend a hand to our good friends and steadfast supporters over at the Linguist List during their 2006 fund drive, we prepared a small selection of limited edition SpecGram merchandise, including T-shirts, stickers and magnets. Originally these items were only available as prizes awarded as part of the Linguist List fund drive. In 2012, several of the SpecGram editors suffered from a rare form of collective frontal lobe damage, which made it seem like a good idea to put together a SpecGram book. The result in 2013 was The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics. In 2014, Editor Mikael Thompson entered a deep fugue ... [ more ]


3. Vol CLXV, No 4 (5 visits)

SPECULATIVE GRAMMARIAN, Volume CLXV, Number 4; October 2012, MANAGING EDITOR Trey Jones SENIOR EDITOR Keith Slater EDITOR EMERITUS Tim Pulju Speculative Grammarian, Vol CLXV, No 4 CONSULTING EDITORS David J. Peterson Bill Spruiell, ASSOCIATE EDITORS Madalena Cruz-Ferreira Daniela Müller Mikael Thompson, EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES Cem Bozsahin Florian Breit Jonathan Downie Adam Graham Tel Monks Mary Pearce Callum Robson Mary Shapiro Sheri Wells-Jensen, COMPTROLLER GENERAL Joey Whitford Stop Voicing Now! ... [ more ]


4. 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!


5. Vol CLVII, No 1 (5 visits)

SPECULATIVE GRAMMARIAN, Volume CLVII, Number 1; August 2009, MANAGING EDITOR, SENIOR EDITOR, EDITOR EMERITUS, Trey Jones, Keith Slater, Tim Pulju, Speculative Grammarian, Vol CLVII, No 1, CONSULTING EDITORS, Ken Miner, David J. Peterson, Bill Spruiell, ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, Jouni Maho, Daniela Müller, EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES, Yahya Abdal-Aziz, Carin Marais, James Stanford, Mikael Thompson, Sheri Wells-Jensen, CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Kean Kaufmann, Joey Whitford, Pro-Drop it like it’s hot!, ... [ more ]


6. Vol CLXVIII, No 1 (4 visits)

Speculative Grammarian Volume CLXVIII, 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: Pete Bleackley, Don Boozer, Virginia Bouchard, Florian Breit, Bethany Carlson, Jonathan Caws-Elwitt, Jonathan Downie, T.B. Geller, Brianne Hughes, Tel Monks, Daniela Müller, Cathal Peelo, David J. Peterson, Veronika Richtarcikova, Callum Robson, Jessie Sams; Joey Whitford, Comptroller General; Hortatives Gonna Hortate; September 2013 ... [ more ]


7. Vol CLXVII, No 4 (3 visits)

Speculative Grammarian Volume CLXVII, Number 4 ... 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: Pete Bleackley, Virginia Bouchard, Florian Breit, Bethany Carlson, Jonathan Downie, T.B. Geller, Kean Kauffman, Jouni Maho, Tel Monks, Daniela Müller, Cathal Peelo, David J. Peterson, Veronika Richtarcikova, Callum Robson, Jessie Sams; Joey Whitford, Comptroller General; Even More Comparative!; August 2013 ... [ more ]


8. Vol CLIII, No 1 (3 visits)

SPECULATIVE GRAMMARIAN, Volume CLIII, Number 1; September 2007, Speculative Grammarian, Vol CLIII, No 1, All the Theories, None of the Empiricism, MANAGING EDITOR, Trey Jones, SENIOR EDITOR, Keith Slater, EDITOR EMERITUS, Tim Pulju, ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Adam Baker, Martin Hilpert, Kean Kaufmann, Ken Miner, David J. Peterson, Freya Shipley, Bill Spruiell, Jakob Steixner, Mikael Thompson, Rita Watson, Sheri Wells-Jensen, Joey Whitford, ... [ more ]


9. Ministry of Propaganda (3 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 ]


10. On the Expectedly Variable Lexicon of 955—Extremely Rapid Environmental Change (EREC)—Etaoin Shrdlu and Elaoin Sdrétu (3 visits)

On the Expectedly Variable Lexicon of 955, Extremely Rapid Environmental Change (EREC). by Etaoin Shrdlu and Elaoin Sdrétu, L.N. O’Type University, Qwertyuiop, Ontario. In; June 2009, M. Oblonglotta reported (“The Highly Variable Lexicon of 955—Extremely Rapid Diachronic Change (ERDC)” SpecGram CLVI.4) on a three-year study of a patch of rock photographed by the Mars Phoenix Lander. Oblongotta’s analysis of over a hundred thousand lines of discourse in this language—based on discrete bursts of pure wavelengths of light—led that author to the conclusion that shifts of 10-20 nm in wavelength for a given lexical item are evidence of ... [ more ]


11. Vol CLXXI, No 2 (3 visits)

Speculative Grammarian Volume CLXXI, Number 2 ... Trey Jones, Editor-in-Chief; Keith Slater, Executive Editor; Bill Spruiell, Senior Editor, Sheri Wells-Jensen, Consulting Editor; Associate Editors: Pete Bleackley, Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, Jonathan Downie, Mikael Thompson; Assistant Editors: Virginia Bouchard, Florian Breit, Callum Robson; Editorial Associates: Cem Bozsahin, Bethany Carlson, Michael Covarrubias, Steve Dodson, Mark Mandel, Tel Monks, Daniela Müller, Tuuli Mustasydän, Ryan Perkins, Will Styler; Joey Whitford, Comptroller General; Linguistics for the Rest of Us; October 2014 ... [ more ]


12. A Classical Vignette—O. Popoi (3 visits)

A Classical Vignette. I was recently studying in Harvard’s special collections library, poring over books by mid-eighteenth century philosophers of language, when I came across a small slip of very yellow paper inserted between the pages of an essay by Johann Peter Suessmilch (appropriately titled “Versuch eines Beweises, dass der Ursprung der menschlichen Sprache nicht vom Menschen, sondern allein vom Schoepfer erhalten habe”). This small slip of very yellow paper contained a few lines of what appeared to be some variant of Hebrew writing. After some further observation, I noted that the paper was quite thick, and of a texture unlike most of our papers today. When I accidentally spilled some of my tea on it, I was ... [ more ]


13. Vol CLXXXVIII, No 4 (3 visits)

Speculative Grammarian Volume CLXXXVIII, Number 4 Trey Jones, Editor-in-Chief; Keith Slater, Executive Editor; Mikael Thompson, Senior Editor; Jonathan Downie, Senior Editor, Pete Bleackley, Contributing Editor, Deak Kirkham, Contributing Editor; Associate Editors: Vincent Fish, Mark Mandel; Assistant Editors: Emily Davis, Yuval Wigderson; Editorial Associates: Luca Dinu, Joe McAvoy, Steve Politzer-Ahles, Mary Shapiro, Fabian Tomaschek, Benjamin Tucker; Joey Whitford, Comptroller General; Making Alexithymia Cool Since Whenever; November 2020 ... [ more ]


14. Language Death by Speaker Rejection—A Few Case Studies—William Carlos Williams Carloses Williamses (3 visits)

Language Death by Speaker Rejection— A Few Case Studies. by William Carlos Williams Carloses Williamses, X. Quizzit Korps Center for Advanced Collaborative Studies. Much recent work has focused on the death of languages worldwide. Such sad events are almost invariably attributed to a conscious decision by the speaking population to reject their language in favor of some more prestigious tongue, often in pursuit of the opportunities for education and economic advancement that the prestigious language seems to offer. In this paper, I will employ several case studies to show that another mechanism is often at work in language death: namely, that some languages reject their speakers, rather than the other way around. That ... [ more ] Podcast!


15. Vol CLIX, No 4 (3 visits)

SPECULATIVE GRAMMARIAN, Volume CLIX, Number 4; September 2010, MANAGING EDITOR, SENIOR EDITOR, EDITOR EMERITUS, Trey Jones, Keith Slater, Tim Pulju, Speculative Grammarian, Vol CLIX, No 4, CONSULTING EDITORS, Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, Jouni Maho, Daniela Müller, David J. Peterson, Bill Spruiell, ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Jonathan Downie, Mikael Thompson, EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES, Bryan Allen, Mathew Block, Bethany Carlson, James Coomer, Tom Dougherty, Carin Marais, Laura Payne, Justin Rye, Jessie Sams, Nick Williams, COMPTROLLER GENERAL, Joey Whitford, Turning “Hard to Believe” Into “Incredible!” for 128 Years, ... [ more ]


16. Vol CL, No 2 (3 visits)

SPECULATIVE GRAMMARIAN, Black Leather Issue, Volume CL, Number 2; April 2005, Special Interactive 3D content, Speculative Grammarian, Vol CL, No 2, MANAGING EDITOR, Trey Jones, EDITOR EMERITUS, Tim Pulju, SENIOR EDITOR, Keith Slater, ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Bryan Allen, Mark de Vries, Martin Hilpert, Edward Johnson, Steven Lulich, Sheila McCann, Jamin Pelkey, Mikael Thompson, Bill Spruiell, Rob van der Sandt, Joey Whitford, There is no spoon. ... [ more ]


17. Vol CLIII, No 2 (3 visits)

SPECULATIVE GRAMMARIAN, Volume CLIII, Number 2; November 2007, Speculative Grammarian, Vol CLIII, No 2, IM IN UR JURNAL, SPEKULATIN’ UR GRAMMERZ, MANAGING EDITOR, Trey Jones, SENIOR EDITOR, Keith Slater, EDITOR EMERITUS, Tim Pulju, ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Adam Baker, Martin Hilpert, Kean Kaufmann, Ken Miner, David J. Peterson, Freya Shipley, Bill Spruiell, Mikael Thompson, Joey Whitford, ... [ more ]


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