Latest Speculative grammarian Podcast Episodes
Language Made Difficult, Vol. L
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - January 09, 2017 13:08 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsLanguage Made Difficult, Vol. L — The SpecGram LingNerds are on their own this time. After some Lies, Damned Lies, and Linguistics, the LingNerds discuss the dangers of mispronouncing the names of Canadian provinces, and then advise students as to what they should not do. They also fail to celebr...
Language Made Difficult, Vol. XLIX
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - January 02, 2017 13:08 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsLanguage Made Difficult, Vol. XLIX — The SpecGram LingNerds are joined by returning guest Tim Pulju. After some Lies, Damned Lies, and Linguistics, the LingNerds discuss purported evidence against Chomsky, and then reveal the titles of their books, all beginning with Language:.
Language Made Difficult, Vol. XLVIII
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - December 26, 2016 13:08 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsLanguage Made Difficult, Vol. XLVIII — The SpecGram LingNerds are joined by returning guest Kean Kaufmann. After some Lies, Damned Lies, and Linguistics, the LingNerds discuss a one hundred word language, and then move on to the royal and other orders for adjectives.
Language Made Difficult, Vol. XLVII
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - December 19, 2016 13:08 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsLanguage Made Difficult, Vol. XLVII — The SpecGram LingNerds are joined by guest Kean Kaufmann. After some Lies, Damned Lies, and Linguistics, the LingNerds briefly discuss some innovative bits of English Grammar—no, totally!—and then try out some new parlor games featuring archaic English words.
Language Made Difficult, Vol. XLVI
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - December 12, 2016 13:08 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsLanguage Made Difficult, Vol. XLVI — The SpecGram LingNerds are joined by returning guest Pete Bleackley. After some Lies, Damned Lies, and Linguistics, the LingNerds discuss something else that tries to look like iconicity, and then look at some innovative and/or abominable on-going changes in E...
Language Made Difficult, Vol. XLV
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - December 05, 2016 13:08 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsLanguage Made Difficult, Vol. XLV — The SpecGram LingNerds are joined by guest Pete Bleackley. After some Lies, Damned Lies, and Linguistics, the LingNerds discuss something that tries to look like iconicity, and then share their favorite linguistical jokes.
The History of the Indo-Europeans—An Agony in Six Fits
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - June 11, 2016 12:08 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe History of the Indo-Europeans—An Agony in Six Fits; by Tim Pulju; From Volume CLXXIV, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, December 2015 — Once upon a time, on a warm spring day about 5500 years ago, a young Indo-European named Bright-Fame drove an ox-cart into the family compound. “Greetings...
Plagiarize This!
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - June 04, 2016 12:10 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsPlagiarize This!; by An Unidentifiable Subset of the SpecGram Editorial Board; From Volume CLXXII, Number 3, of Speculative Grammarian, March 2015 — It has come to our attention that entirely unfounded, spurious, and indefatigable accusations of heinous plagiarism have been made against the X. Qu...
Plagiarism Uncovered in SpecGram Pages
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - June 04, 2016 12:08 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsPlagiarism Uncovered in SpecGram Pages; by The Linguistic Inquirer; From Volume CLXXII, Number 3, of Speculative Grammarian, March 2015 — Pursuant to the terms of the pre-litigious resolution of “Grammar Entelechy v. Speculative Grammarian” the editors of SpecGram have recently disclosed the trut...
Degenerative Grammar
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - May 09, 2016 12:08 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsDegenerative Grammar; by Desirée-Debauchée Cyntacks & Dec A. D’Cadence; From Volume CLXXII, Number 2, of Speculative Grammarian, February 2015 — Since the 1950’s, linguistics has been wild with excitement over Chomsky’s insights, collectively known as “generative grammar.” As all non-linguists kn...
Hazards of Fieldwork Among the Hiithrobnsn
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - April 25, 2016 01:05 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHazards of Fieldwork Among the Hiithrobnsn; by William Moore-Crusoe; From Volume CLXXIV, Number 2, of Speculative Grammarian, October 2015 — The Hiithrobnsn live in a remote, marshy and inhospitable region of Guyana. A traditional greeting amongst them is “Mind where you walk,” wise advice, as it...
Top Tips For Linguists—Part II
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - April 16, 2016 12:10 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTop Tips For Linguists—Part II; by The SpecGram Editorial Board; From Volume CLXXIV, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, December 2015 — Realizing that many linguists, young and old, find themselves unsure of how best to succeed (or have success thrust upon them), we of the Speculative Grammaria...
Top Tips For Linguists—Part I
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - April 16, 2016 12:08 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTop Tips For Linguists—Part I; by The SpecGram Editorial Board; From Volume CLXXIV, Number 3, of Speculative Grammarian, November 2015 — Realizing that many linguists, young and old, find themselves unsure of how best to succeed (or have success thrust upon them), we of the Speculative Grammarian...
Linguistic Contributions To The Formal Theory Of Big-Game Hunting
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - April 11, 2016 16:11 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsLinguistic Contributions To The Formal Theory Of Big-Game Hunting; by R. Mathiesen; From Lingua Pranca, June, 1978 — The Mathematical Theory of Big-Game Hunting must surely be ranked among the major scientific achievements of the twentieth century. That this is so is largely the work of one man, ...
Ye Olde Punnery—The Jigglepike Fragment
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - April 04, 2016 01:44 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsYe Olde Punnery—The Jigglepike Fragment; by SpecGram Wire Services; From Volume CLXX, Number 1, of Speculative Grammarian, May 2014 — A small fragment of a manuscript believed to be part of the lost play “Ye Olde Punnery” by Willhebe Jigglepike has been unearthed at the bottom of a centuries-old ...
Reviewerish Field Notes
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - March 25, 2016 12:08 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsReviewerish Field Notes; by Cy Tayshon and M. Paktphaq-Torr; From Volume CLXXV, Number 2, of Speculative Grammarian, February 2016 — One of the most important skills linguists-to-be must develop is the ability to interpret the true meaning behind apparently transparent locutions used by more seni...
Features of Tea: A Potted History
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - March 19, 2016 12:08 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsFeatures of Tea: A Potted History; by Pete Bleackley; From Volume CLXXIII, Number 2, of Speculative Grammarian, June 2015 — According to legend, tea originated when an emperor of China was adding the feature [+boiled] to his drinking-water, having deduced the correlation with [−disease]. A chance...
The Devil’s Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - March 14, 2016 12:08 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe Devil’s Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics; by David Krystal &Adam Baker; From Volume CLXXV, Number 1, of Speculative Grammarian, January 2016 — C-command. A f-formal r-relationship m-made n-necessary by an u-unfortunate e-early c-commitment to b-binary t-trees. (Read by Phineas Q. Phlog...
Close and Extended Relative Clauses—A Critical Account
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - February 29, 2016 13:08 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsClose and Extended Relative Clauses—A Critical Account; by Fang Gui-Ling; From Volume CLXIV, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, June 2012 — Analytical approaches to relative clauses have by and large incorporated the growing body of evidence regarding biological constraints on embedding. Labeli...
Handy Definitions for Newcomers to the Field of Linguistics
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - February 21, 2016 22:51 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHandy Definitions for Newcomers to the Field of Linguistics; by Ken Miner and David J. Peterson; From Collateral Descendant of Lingua Pranca, October 2009 — back-formation: lumbar exercises / circumfix: unhealthy fascination with circuses; a cross inside a circle... (Read by Brock Schardin.)
Parenting Styles and Progeny Success—A Practical Guide to Broken-Record Parenting
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - January 31, 2016 13:08 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsParenting Styles and Progeny Success—A Practical Guide to Broken-Record Parenting; by Psammeticus Press; From Volume CLXXI, Number 3, of Speculative Grammarian, November 2014 — Parents, do you feel like a broken record? “Bath time!” ... “Shut the door!” ... “Don’t talk with your mouth full!” ... ...
The Man Who Left His Deictic Center in San Francisco
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - January 16, 2016 19:22 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe Man Who Left His Deictic Center in San Francisco; by Edward Tapir and Benjamin Wharf; From Volume CLXX, Number 1, of Speculative Grammarian, May 2014 — One of our esteemed colleagues has attended numerous semantics conferences around the world, from the sad streets of Paris to gloomy Rome and...
The Compleat Linguist
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - January 10, 2016 13:08 - 33 seconds ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe Compleat Linguist; by John-Boy Walton; From Collateral Descendant of Lingua Pranca, October, 2009 — Man’s sentence’s in vain, for it’s subject is pain... (Read by Brock Schardin.)
Perpetuation of Traditional Gender Roles by European Languages
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - January 02, 2016 20:56 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsPerpetuation of Traditional Gender Roles by European Languages; by Douglas S. Files; From Volume I, Number 1, of Babel, March 1990 — Several European languages encourage the continuation of traditional sex roles through the gender underlying their nouns. In this paper, the French, Spanish, and Ge...
Selections from Hymns for the Reverent Linguist
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - December 19, 2015 16:42 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSelections from Hymns for the Reverent Linguist; from The Linguistick Hymnary (1845); From Volume CLXVI, Number 1, of Speculative Grammarian, November 2012 — Typology, Typology; Joy to the Word. (Performed by Anna Weingarten.)
Saving Endangered Languages with Prescriptivism
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - December 12, 2015 16:06 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSaving Endangered Languages with Prescriptivism; by Neil de Veratte; From Volume CLXXII, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, April 2015 — All over the world, languages are being lost at an alarming rate. Field linguists do their best to preserve these languages, but find their speaker communitie...
On the Mytholinguistic Significance of Butterflies
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - December 05, 2015 21:52 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn the Mytholinguistic Significance of Butterflies; by Mary Hadlitt-Lamb; From Volume CLXXI, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, December 2014 — A remarkable cross-linguistic pattern can be observed in the words for “butterfly”. While these words seldom appear to be cognate even in closely relat...
A Possible Prional Source for Linguistic Degeneration from Prolonged Ailuric Exposure
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - November 28, 2015 16:08 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsA Possible Prional Source for Linguistic Degeneration from Prolonged Ailuric Exposure; by B. Bubo, T. Tyto, S. Strix, and A. Asio; From Volume CLIII, Number 1, of Speculative Grammarian, September 2007 — Over the past two decades, an increasing number of adult patients have presented for treatmen...
Redundantly Multilingual Pretension Markers in BWFSEDPRCLCEE
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - November 22, 2015 19:02 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsRedundantly Multilingual Pretension Markers in BWFSEDPRCLCEE; by Saszkwacz Qumkwaat & Yýŷỳ Yẙÿẙÿẙ; From Volume CLV, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, February 2009 — After generating minimal interest in linguistic circles during the 1960’s, very little linguistic attention has been paid to a o...
How Linguistics Got Her Groove Back
Speculative Grammarian Podcast - November 14, 2015 20:37 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow Linguistics Got Her Groove Back; by Gunnr Guðr Entgegenlächeln; From Volume CLXIII, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, January 2012 — Common wisdom—an oxymoron if ever there was one—has it that linguistics and linguists themselves have a bit of a reputation problem. Are linguists boring? In...
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