The Original English Movement; Announcement; From Volume CXLIX, Number 3, of Speculative Grammarian, July 2004 — For decades descriptive linguists and professional prescriptivists—technical writers, editors, and English teachers—have been at war. As most linguists know all too well, the prescriptivists say that descriptivism is at best a weak philosophy of usage, and at worst an invitation to grammatical chaos. However, too many prescriptivists maintain what is, to descriptivists, an illogical position: language should not change—or at least not until all the opponents of a particular change are long dead. (Read by Trey Jones.)
Erschienen: 20.12.2013
Dauer: 2:13
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Review of “The Semantics and Pragmatics of Voice Systems: A Functional Analysis”, by Carrie Cameron; by Zoltan Lazar; From Volume I, Number 2, of Babel, April 1990 (Read by Keith Slater.)
Erschienen: 16.12.2013
Dauer: 3:03
A Review of Wailin’ Jennings’ “Mommas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Linguists”; by Praenomen Gentilicium Cognomen, Esq.; From Volume CLXV, Number 2, of Speculative Grammarian, August 2012 — Well-known kʌn.trɪ.n.wɛs.tʌrn star Wailin’ Jennings—son of famed rhotacism and blues crooner Moanin’ Jennings and grandson of beloved buggie-wuggie icon Hollerin’ Jennings—has released a groundbreaking new album. (Read by Trey Jones.)
Erschienen: 13.12.2013
Dauer: 1:42
People with Lack of Original Research Ideas (PLORI); Advertisement; From Volume CLXVIII, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, December 2013 — People with Lack of Original Research Ideas in Linguistics (PLORI), is a national support group for postgraduates and early-career researchers in the broad field of linguistics who are affected by the negative psychosocial, physical and academoprospective effects of Lack of Original Research Syndrome (LOR-Syndrome). (Read by Tuuli Mustasydän.)
Erschienen: 09.12.2013
Dauer: 2:39
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Recision and Precall—Accuracy Measures for the 21st Century; by Jonathan van der Meer; From Volume CLII, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, July 2007 — Thanks to a decades-long case of physics envy and the advent of cheap computational power, linguistics has devolved from a cultured gentlemen’s pseudo-science into a debased money-grubbing quasi-science. (Read by Jonathan van der Meer.)
Erschienen: 02.12.2013
Dauer: 4:55
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On Saving Endangered Languages as Part of Doing Doctoral Research; by Albertrinette Q. Yue-Ramirez; From Volume CLXIV, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, June 2012 — Searching for a dissertation topic gives one an abundance of time for introspection. And watching old TV programs. Personally, I get my jollies through archived episodes of The Brady Bunch, Gilligan’s Island, and Hogan’s Heroes. Those were great shows, let me tell you. Can’t get enough of them! (Read by Zac Smith.)
Erschienen: 25.11.2013
Dauer: 2:03
Ozymandian semicolon.. lying in the sand.. An Ode to the Two-Dot Ellipsis..; by J.. K.. Eats..; From Volume CLXV, Number 2, of Speculative Grammarian, August 2012 — Thou still incomplete bride of punctuation.. (Read by Trey Jones.)
Erschienen: 22.11.2013
Dauer: 1:23
The Traditional Grammarian as Poet; by Ted Hipple; From Volume CLXVIII, Number 1, of Speculative Grammarian, September 2013 (Read by Trey Jones.)
Erschienen: 22.11.2013
Dauer: 0:19
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Paramount Seeks To Leverage Linguistic Capital; by SpecGram Wire Services; From Volume CL, Number 3, of Speculative Grammarian, July 2005 — Attempting to leverage the success of its Klingon monopoly, Star Trek owner Paramount Pictures has been making aggressive advances on the world’s minority languages. Offers for majority ownership of such diverse languages as Eastern Yugur, Basque, and Mofu are reported by knowledgeable sources as running well into the tens of millions of US dollars. (Read by Keith Slater.)
Erschienen: 15.11.2013
Dauer: 1:48
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Language Death by Speaker Rejection—More Case Studies; by William Carlos Williams Carloses Williamses; From Volume CLXV, Number 2, of Speculative Grammarian, August 2012 — In a previous article I introduced a new mechanism of language death: that by which languages actively reject their speakers, rather than the other way around. I have discovered a number of additional examples of this phenomenon, and I summarize them here. (Read by Trey Jones.)
Erschienen: 12.11.2013
Dauer: 4:13
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