On Linguistic Death Cults; by The Managing Editor; From Volume CLXII, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, September 2011 — For those not familiar with the casting of pods in which some of the editors of SpecGram engage, I feel obligated to comment on a story we recently discussed, in which it was reported that the last two speakers of Ayapaneco refuse to talk to each other (“Language at risk of dying out—the last two speakers aren’t talking” by Jo Tuckman, The Guardian, April 14, 2011). This is clearly a linguistic suicide pact. (Read by Trey Jones.)
Erschienen: 27.06.2014
Dauer: 2:36
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The No. 1 Linguists’ Detective Agency; by Keith W. Slater; From Volume CLXIV, Number 1, of Speculative Grammarian, February 2012 — M̥ma Makutsi had just poured the tea. Red bush tea for M̥ma Ramotswe, and ordinary tea for M̥ma Makutsi, who preferred ordinary tea and had told M̥ma Ramotswe so, though not until after a long period of uneasiness and indecision. That had been in the early days of the Agency, before M̥ma Makutsi had become an Assistant Detective and had become engaged to the morphologist Phuti Redupliphuti, indeed even before M̥ma Ramotswe, who founded the Agency, had become the wife of Mr. N.L.P. Matekoni, the finest computational linguist in all of Gabarone, in all of Botswana, perhaps even in all of Africa. Botswana had been little different then, of course, but the lives of so many linguists had changed in those few short years. Lives were always changing, M̥ma Ramotswe reflected, and one could never predict beforehand in what way they would change. (Read by Keith Slater.)
Erschienen: 20.06.2014
Dauer: 8:36
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University Sues Self for Plagiarism; by SpecGram Wire Services; From Volume CLXVII, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, August 2013 — The University of Texas at Austin has filed suit against itself for theft of intellectual property. A countersuit, also by the University against itself, demands recompense for emotional damages. The University expects a net windfall of at least $12 million from these lawsuits. (Read by Trey Jones.)
Erschienen: 13.06.2014
Dauer: 2:14
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Compound Nouns for Frances; by Keith Slater and Kean Kaufmann; From Volume CLXVII, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, August 2013 — Frances and her baby sister Gloria were playing dodge ball in their front yard when Albert came along. Albert was pulling a toy wagon with a large picnic hamper in it. (Read by Keith Slater.)
Erschienen: 06.06.2014
Dauer: 3:29
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Speculative Grammarian—Our Story; by Trey Jones; From the Speculative Grammarian “About Us” web page — 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. (Read by Trey Jones.)
Erschienen: 30.05.2014
Dauer: 1:53
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The Patented SpecGram 5 Minute Interview: Arika Okrent — My guest today is Arika Okrent, linguist, author of “In the Land of Invented Languages”, fan of conlangs and, I think, conlangers, speaker of Klingon and Hungarian, signer of ASL, and contributor to Mental Floss and Slate’s Lexicon Valley, where she writes about conlangs, ASL, old fonts, and even makes a decent case for the use of “I could care less”.
Erschienen: 23.05.2014
Dauer: 4:30
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The Patented SpecGram 5 Minute Interview: Philip Resnik — My guest today is Philip Resnik, a professor at the University of Maryland, with joint appointments in the Department of Linguistics and at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. Phillip is the director of the University of Maryland Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory, and a researcher and consultant with extensive experience in natural language processing and text analytics, specializing in combining knowledge based and corpus based statistical techniques. He is also a Strategic Technology Advisor to 3M Health Information Systems and the Founder of React Labs.
Erschienen: 23.05.2014
Dauer: 3:00
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Grrr!; by Trey Jones—from The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics Video Contest
Erschienen: 16.05.2014
Dauer: 0:45
I Study Linguistics; by Vince Wilson—from The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics Video Contest
Erschienen: 16.05.2014
Dauer: 0:56
We Didn’t Start the Satire; by Audie O.& Hannah Graham—from The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics Video Contest
Erschienen: 16.05.2014
Dauer: 1:54
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