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Yet Another Anthology of Linguistic Humor
T. Jones & K. Slater, Editors
October, 2009
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Introduction
Piled Higher and Deeper
On the Meta-Abstractness of the Abstract Abstract—Métha Maxwell
Ph.D. Qualifying Examination for Linguistics—Saudade Gezellig
On the Two Main Types of Computational Linguists—J. Random Linguist
Handy Definitions for Newcomers to the Field of Linguistics—Ken Miner and David J. Peterson
New Methods in Linguistic Laboratory Acquisition—Anthesteria Dionysia
Out of the Mouths of Linguists—Namtrah Nevets
Look What the Doggerel Dragged In
I Think That I Shall Never See—Bill Spruiell
The Compleat Linguist—John-Boy Walton
When I Heard the Learn’d Linguist—Sophrosyne Enchiridion
English on the edge—Terence MacNamee
Nursery Rhymes From Linguistics Land—Yune O. Hūū, II
The Immoral Imperative Mood
More Murphy’s Laws for Linguists—Trey Jones & Bill Spruiell
Ten New Commandments for Linguists—Trey Jones, et al.
And Now a Word from Our Sponsor
New Advances in Morpheme Detoxification—D.O.G.M.A.
The Phone-of-the-Month Club—Advertisement
!Kanga Tribal Research Resort—Terry Mulkern
What Do You Mean, “Illogical”?
What Part of ‘No’ Don’t You Understand?—Strang Burton
Another Snag in Semantic Theory—Benoît de Cornulier
Everything Logicians Need to Know about Linguistics, but are (Posited to be) Afraid to Ask—Keith Slater, Trey Jones, and Two Anonymous Linguists from Omaha
Logical Fallacies for Winning Arguments and Influencing Decisions—F. “Al” Lacie, Ph.D.
Describing the Theoretically Indescribable
When Bad Informants Happen to Good Linguists—Michael M. T. Henderson
Two Varieties of Stromboli—Michael M. T. Henderson
First Footsteppings into the Barvalian Language—Metalleus
Effing the Theoretically Ineffable
On Google, Wikipedia, and The Development of The Internet—Fædrus
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Plaid’oh
More Glimpses into the Collective Subconscious—Fom Pop
On the Continuing Obvious Superiority of Relational Networks in Representing Just About Anything—S.M. Lockwood and D.G. Lamb
Regarding the Development and Decay of Mongolian Vowel Harmony: with Special Reference to Copernicus and Galileo—Robert I. Binnick
Not So New Media
Minimalism: The Movie—David Ingram
Word-TV—Brought to You by Unaccountable Network Executives
The Olde Yankee Grammarian
—Elan Dresher
False Friends—Trey Jones
Administrivia
Collateral Descendant of Lingua Pranca
—Style Sheet and Submission Guidelines—Eddy Turr
Speculative Grammarian
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