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1. The Mann de Man Language Institute—Advertisement (5 visits)

ADVERTISEMENT The Mann de Man Language Institute. Foreign language instruction has grown by leaps and bounds as the benefits of the communicative approach have made themselves felt far and wide. At the same time, language instructors pay lip service to the importance of cultural factors in language education and intercultural communication. However, only our service thoroughly and consistently applies the important insights of cultural factors to language instruction. Take, for example, the common practice of “face-to-face” instruction. While this is ideally suited to cultures like China and Japan that place great emphasis upon saving face, it is useless for learning the nuances of language use in ... [ more ]


2. Rasmus Rask Puzzle III—Lila Rosa Grau (4 visits)

Rasmus Rask Puzzle III. by Lila Rosa Grau. This is the third Rasmus Rask puzzle, devoted to the original Mr. Charming Scandinavian Linguist. The puzzle is similar to a crossword puzzle, in that there is a grid for filling in words and phrases, and clues for the ACROSS and DOWN directions. However, all the squares in a Rasmus Rask puzzle are filled with letters, and the answers to the clues may (but are not required to) overlap. Clues for a particular row or column are given together, in the order they appear in the grid. No indication of the amount of overlap between clues is given. Letters spelling out RASMUS RASK along the diagonal are given to provide a framework for filling in the answers. Complete ... [ more ]


3. Vol CLXV, No 4 (4 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. Improving L2 Performance with Pirahã, Shigudo, and Simple English—The effects of syntactic and semantic priming on successful L2 communication—Jeannot Van Tricasse (4 visits)

Improving L2 Performance with Pirahã Shigudo, and Simple English. The effects of syntactic and semantic priming on successful L2 communication. Jeannot Van Tricasse, Jules Verne University, Paris, France. As is well known, students of foreign languages are often frustrated by their lack of ability to express thoughts of normal complexity in the language they are studying.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 This frustration can easily turn into a bitterness that leaves the student unable or unwilling to continue their language studies, even after a year or more of study.11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20 This is an unfortunate state of affairs for many reasons. Bilingualism has been implicated in ... [ more ]


5. Language as a Virus from Space—Announcement (4 visits)

ANNOUNCEMENT Further Evidence for, Language, as a, Virus from Space, A Symposium in Two Movements. Fred Hoyle has forcefully and, many would say, persuasively argued for the existence of viruses floating free in space. Hoyle, Wickranmasinghe, and Watkins in their seminal work, Viruses from Space go so far as to suggest that life on Earth may have been seeded by such viruses. These claims are certainly worthy of consideration, but they fail to address an important corollary: if life on Earth was seeded by viruses from space, then shouldn't such viruses--most likely completely different ones, in fact--still be falling to the Earth's surface from time to time? After abstractly pondering these facts for several years in ... [ more ]


6. The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics (4 visits)

The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics . For decades, Speculative Grammarian has been the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics—and now it is available in book form—both physical and electronic! We wish we were kidding,1 but no, seriously, we’ve published a large3 collection of SpecGram articles, along with just enough new material to force obsessive collectors and fans to buy it, regardless of the cost.4 From the Introduction: The past twenty-five years have witnessed many changes in linguistics, with major developments in linguistic theory, significant expansion ... [ more ]


7. Son of Lingua Pranca (4 visits)

Son of Lingua Pranca. T. Ernst & E. Smith, Editors. Indiana University. IULC. November 1979. ... edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging edging, ... Son of, ^ Lingua, ... Pranca, ... fleur ... T. Ernst & E. Smith, eds. ... indiana university, ... i u linguistics club, ... [ more ]


8. The Prescriptivist Handbook, 213th Edition—Book Announcement from Psammeticus Press (3 visits)

The Prescriptivist Handbook, 213th Edition, from The Editors of Psammeticus Press, Published 2024. 150 pages Word connoisseurs, language mavens, and members of similar non-professions everywhere can rejoice, as Psammeticus Press has just released the 213th edition of The Prescriptivist Handbook, the acclaimed1 language-adjacent publication used by millions worldwide. Since its first edition in 1811, The Prescriptivist Handbook has helped countless people prevent the degradation of the English language into senseless illogicality by introducing linguistic innovations to enable them to speak efficiently, logically, and (most importantly) correctly. Not only that, its various ... [ more ]


9. Linguimericks, Etc.—Book ९६ (3 visits)

Linguimericks, Etc. Book ९६. A quarrel that’s hard to extinguish Is which language from which to distinguish. Be fast on your feet If, on Sauchiehall Street, You say Scots is a dialect of English —Pete Bleackley, an abjad walks into a bar to drink beer and have snacks and cigars but the bar was a bear without brews, brie, or chairs “what a bore. guess I’ll uber a car” —Andrew Lamont, When training up our novice, full-of-beans phonetics teachers We say, ‘Nasality, round~spread and manner, length and place Should always be made clear—so be expressive with your face!’ Result: the students really come to see distinctive features —Fionn et Tix, ... [ more ]


10. SpecGram, Quarterly—A Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (3 visits)

SpecGram, Quarterly. A Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. [Note: Due to a scheduling error 0 and tight deadline, we were unable to cull a small percentage of the Editor-in-Chief’s extensive and extraneous footnotes. Our usual modus operandi is to allow him to annotate and divagate to his tiny black heart’s approximation of contentment, and then mercilessly cut the dead weight with a red pencil-cum-machete. In this case, we were only able to remove and repair the subsequent rhetorical and narrative damage for approximately 86.7% (by weight) of the Editor-in-Chief’s most egregious footnotery. We apologize for the unavoidable ... [ more ]


11. Spring’s Springiness Springs Springingly: Putting a SpecGrammy Spring in Your Linguistic Step This Spring—Spree Ng and B. D. Oing (3 visits)

Spring’s Springiness Springs Springingly: Putting a SpecGrammy Spring in Your Linguistic Step This Spring. By Curled Up Coiled Up Editors, Spree Ng and B. D. Oing. ‘Spring is here, sper-ring is here!’ warbled Tom Lehrer in one of his less repetitive lines.1 Now, quoting a Lehrer lyric at the start of an article is always good writing practice as the prose can then only get better. However, on this occasion, the specific choice of line leads directly into the theme of today’s editorial, which we shall now spring upon you: it’s Spring! Spring is indeed here; but spring has for millennia been amongst those of us who reckon ourselves the linguistic ... [ more ]


12. Archives (3 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 ]


13. Linguimericks—Book ९८ (3 visits)

Linguimericks, Book ९८. language pathology 101, (h/t Tom Meadows) stutters, aphasias, and stroke? nope: we study what Phrygians spoke. hope to find the cause why and when Phrygian died and that’s the extent of this joke’s scope —Andrew Lamont, What a Waist! ‘Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame ...’— And off goes William Shakespeare once again! These endless hooker puns are quite malign: Don’t let your kids read Sonnet 129 —Seneca (Sen) Sorius, ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ ‘No thanks, Will. And I, Anne Hathaway, Took a restraining order out last May: You’re meant to stay at least two miles away.’ —Anne ... [ more ]


14. Ps. Q.—Vol XVI, No 3 (3 visits)

PSAMMETICUS QUARTERLY. C U R R E N T R E S E A R C HI N A L L, L I N G U I S T I C F I E L D S. MANAGING EDITORS: Tim Pulju, Keith Slater, CONSULTING EDITORS: Joel Boyd, A.B.T. Charles Cairns, B.A. Doug Files, B.A. Dave Kathman, A.B.T. Edward Kovach, M.A. David Lockwood, Ph.D. Carol Miller, High School Diploma, Wo-Tak Ng, M.A. Sherry Vaupel, High School Diploma, JUNIOR EDITORS: (probationary status), Jubilee Brown, M.D. Fraser Bennett, A.B.D. William Casey, C.I.A. Graham Chapman, B.B.C. Michael Coyne, R.A. Lisa DeMumbrum, D.V.M. John DiBiaggio, D.D.S. Tony Mandarich, O.T. Horatio Nelson, K.B. William Webster, F.B.I. POPE: John Paul II, ... [ more ]


15. 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 ]


16. Vol CLXXII, No 4 (3 visits)

Speculative Grammarian Volume CLXXII, Number 4 ... 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, Mark Mandel, Yuval Wigderson; Editorial Associates: James Campbell, Bethany Carlson, Jonathan Caws-Elwitt, Rick Keys, Tel Monks, Laura Ryals, Isabelle Tellier; Joey Whitford, Comptroller General; Syllable Peak or Bust!; April 2015 ... [ more ]


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