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The January 2024 Issue of Speculative Grammarian
The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including a look into the shallowly cute yet deeply unsavory nature of a well-known “educational” children’s song; a view of the future of linguistics as seen from the past (part, the first); and an excerpt on the Effolk dialect from the not-entirely-reliable Jimmypedia—along with the usual collection of letters from our readers, breaking news, limericks, serendipitous fieldwork, book announcements, linguistickish puzzles, and more...
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The October 2023 Issue of Speculative Grammarian
The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including some, uh, timely musings on large language models from our Editor-in-Chief, a wind-breaking... no, wait... breath-taking introduction to the explosively burgeoning field of Flatu-linguistics, and a happy little diversion for you at your next academic conference: a conference-themed treasure hunt!—along with the usual collection of letters from our readers, breaking news, limericks and other poetry, serendipitous fieldwork, linguistickish puzzles, and more...
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The Native American Origins of Jack and Jill: http://bit.ly/1oLjwkM
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Autodescriptive Linguistic Terms: Let us not mention apophasis.
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Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. —Frank Gelett Burgess
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This Quarter in SpecGram—Previous Puzzle Solutions—The SpecGram Puzzle Elves™ https://bit.ly/45CZuxZ
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Student Pearls—“Hers book is red” is well formed as it is used and deemed acceptable by its speakers. Speakers of English know this.
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Books for Linguists: The Colorless Green Dwarf: A Tale in the Perfect Tense, by Charlotte Breathë; Vowel Heights, by Emily Breathë
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A man of maxims only is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Fractured French—Tout de suite: no more sugar, please
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Today’s Punishment: The problem with short skirts is the upcreep.
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Global English: Measles not included in Room Charge —hotel in Seoul, Korea
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The Divine Future of Linguistics: A list of linguistic saints, part I: http://bit.ly/cappGQ
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Autodescriptive Linguistic Terms: Wow! Look! I just found a mirative! / Don’t use the prohibitive mood!
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This Quarter in SpecGram—Nerdword’ll, Part I—Reg X. Woolery https://bit.ly/45EtXvs
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Student Pearls—Neologisms mean that those created words do not exist.
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“On the use of the phrase ‘on the’ and the colon-delimited subtitle in academic papers: A meta-analysis”
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