Speculative Grammarian Volume CLIV, Number 1 May 2008 For your enlightened edification and eggheaded entertainment, another issue of Speculative Grammarian is now available. This issue includes: exciting all-new articles concerning the use of linguistics to make easy money, more on Center Embedded Passives, and a proof of Universal Science (which has even more Universal universality than Universal Grammar); another installment each of the Cartoon Theories of Linguistics and Bizarre Grammars of the World series; more Quasi-Linguistic Pseudo-Anglic Puzzleness—still, alas, in the form of Transform puzzles; and the usual high-quality collection of articles, letters from our readers, and more... Next time (June 2008), we will have another all-new, though somewhat shorter, issue of SpecGram.       Read the current issue. Read back issues.

We have recently completed our transition from the real world to online: we have finally finished digitizing the tattered remains of our once glorious Archive, re-publishing each issue on the internet. Our new mission is two-fold: First, we will continue to publish the best works of satirical linguistics available anywhere—so we are, of course, looking for submissions for upcoming issues of SpecGram. Second, we seek to transform other satirical linguistics resources from their current dead-tree-format to a more readily disseminated bit-based format. Our current project is the conversion of the anthologies Lingua Pranca and Son of Lingua Pranca

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