Summer Puzzle Mega Issue Solutions

Scrambled Linguist—Trey Jones

ნიკოლოზ იაკობის ძე მარი (though “Nicholas Marr” was also accepted).

• NP vs Np
• # is rotated 90°
• S vs Q at root
• .—? vs ?
• differences vs diferences
• two vs 2
• line length for MD—Can

Knights of the Linguistic Roundtable—Fergus Falls-Brainerd

VOICELESSNESS

Lingo Jumble—Orang Pendek, D.Sc. and Orang Mawas, Litt.D.

• PRO-DROP
• PRONOUN
• INGRESSIVE
• OPTIMALITY
• COARTICULATION
• TRANSFORMATION
  
  
• PANINI

Rebus—Wulfila Bruinne, M.F.A., Ph.D.

Be not a slave to words.

E’s-y Cryptogram—Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Erlösende Einigkeit

It is a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Linguistic Story Time—Abbernathy Ljunqvist, M.B.A.

cunning linguist

(This type of puzzle is an automynorcagram.)

IPA Analogies—Dr. Watalodabaloni Überwoggle, B.F.E.

close-mid front unrounded vowel : close-mid central unrounded vowel ::
    open-mid front unrounded vowel : open-mid central unrounded vowel
    e : ɘ :: ɛ : ɜ

alveolar nasal : retroflex nasal ::
    voiced alveolar plosive : voiced retroflex plosive
    n : ɳ :: d : ɖ

close front unrounded vowel : near-close near-front unrounded vowel ::
    close front rounded vowel : near-close near-front rounded vowel
    i : ɪ :: y : ʏ

voiced labialized velar approximant : voiceless labialized velar approximant ::
    voiceless glottal fricative : voiced labialized palatal approximant
    w : ʍ :: h : ɥ

close front unrounded vowel : close central unrounded vowel ::
    close back rounded vowel : close central rounded vowel
    i : ɨ :: u : ʉ

close-mid front unrounded vowel : mid central vowel ::
    open front unrounded vowel : near-open central vowel
    e : ə :: a : ɐ

open back unrounded vowel : open back rounded vowel ::
    bilabial nasal: close back unrounded vowel
    ɑ : ɒ :: m : ɯ

(The analogies are purely orthographic, not phonetic, and involve turning, reflecting, barring, converting to small caps, or adding a tail.)

Mars Linguists—Prof. Yamātārājabhānasalagām Ouroboros

It cannot be done.

(That is, the solution is the phrase: “It cannot be done”. It is not the case that the puzzle cannot be solved.)

Word Search—Marco Manni Quadi-Suebi und Al P. Engermanen

Cranberry is not in the table.

Drop Kick the Quote—Phil Trum, Doctor of Linguology

Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. —Ambrose Bierce

Who’s Who in Linguistics—Dniester Ostrogoth, Ph.D. and Dnieper Ostrogoth, D.Phil.

SIEVERS
JONES
 MURRAY
   BOPP
  ZIPF
 VONHUMBOLDT
   GRIMM

    SWEET
  BLEEK
    MIKLOSICH
JESPERSEN
   PEDERSEN
  KRUSZEWSKI

       BLOOMFIELD
       ZAMENHOF
 JAKOBSON
FLENSBURG
   SAUSSURE
       SAPIR
        GRASSMAN
    HOCKETT

Verbing weirds language.

FonoFutoshiki III—Ulfheðnar ber Sarkur

The annoying floating grey dots are called the Hermann Grid Illusion, named after Ludimar Hermann.

HashiWordakero—Lacuna Mamihlapinatapai

Rasmus Rask Puzzle I—Lila Rosa Grau

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T	E	X	T	U	A	L	I	T	Y
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Akróstichon—Dr. Dr. Fortina Haecceity, M.D., Ph.D.

• STRATIFICATIONAL
• NEOGRAMMARIAN
• HOMOPHONY
• PHONEME
• GODDESS
• KNEW
• TENTS
  
  
• I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Everything That Linguists Have Always Wanted to Know About Logic—Prof. D. Innere Form

Name	School	Field	Symbol	Rank
Adele	Wheat and Rice A&M	Syntax	ɔ	3rd
Barney	Munich Institute for Technologicality	Historical Linguistics	ʘ	5th
Chloe	Com Unity College	Semantics	ə	1st
David	Harvyard U	Phonetics	ʃ	4th
Emily	Cornhell U	Phonology	p’	2nd

Et Al.—Nick Williams

/fənɛtɪk krɪptəgræm/—Moko Dude, Ph.D.

/ɪŋglɪʃ ɪz wət ju gɛt frəm nɔrmənz traɪɪŋ tə pɪk ʌp sæksən gɜrlz/

(English is what you get from Normans trying to pick up Saxon girls.)

Verbal Arithmetic—Fnu Nmn Lnu, A.B.D.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
U O T G N A R E V C

Words of Dubious Roman Origin—Numerius Negidius et Aulus Agerius

• ILL
• CIVIL
• CIVIC
• ID
• VIVID
• LID
• LIVID
• DILL
• DID
• MI
• VIM
• MIX
• MILL
• DIM
• MID
• MILD
• MIMIC
• MMMMM

Linguistic Equations—Prof. Lars Tyndskids and Dr. Jef Van Pijperzele

• 3 types of Non-Pulmonic Consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• 4 Vowel Heights in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• 8 Manners of Articulation for Pulmonic Consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• 8 primary Cardinal Vowels (made famous by Daniel Jones)
• 11 Places of Articulation for Pulmonic Consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• 24 Letters of the Greek Alphabet
• 26 Letters of the Latin Alphabet
• 100 Words in the Swadesh list
• ~6000 Languages in the World

Famous Extracts—John Miaou

1. Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution
   By Brent Berlin, Paul Kay
2. An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics
   By Henry Allan Gleason
3. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
   By Francis Grose
4. Reading Saussure: A Critical Commentary on the Cours de Linguistique Générale
   By Roy Harris
5. The Principles of the International Phonetic Association
   By the International Phonetic Association
6. The Pronunciation of English
   By Daniel Jones
7. Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs
   By Alan Henderson Gardiner
8. The Sound Pattern of English
   By Noam Chomsky, Morris Halle
9. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
   By Noam Chomsky
10. Introduction to Montague Semantics
    by David R. Dowty, Robert Eugene Wall, Stanley Peters

Crossword for Indo-Europeanists—Tim Pulju

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Linguacrostic—Drs. Oniomania Succedaneum and Lex Quisquis, Ph.D.s

• PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
• MULTILINGUALISM
• GRANDMOTHERHOOD
• HABERDASHER
• GRAMMATOLOGY
• SYNAESTHESIA
• SEMANTEME
• ARROWHEAD
• XOANON
• VOODOO
• GENDER
• DATA
• EARTH
• HAND
• DOFF
• OFF
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• The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

DIS(PLAY)FUL END(GAME)SOMELY—Maija Meikäläinen, Ph.D. and Matti Meikäläinen, J.D.

• EU(CRE)OLE
• A(PRON)OUN
• AC(CENT)ER
• ACOU(STIC)KLER
• AD(VERB)ATIM
• ALPH(ABET)TED
• AS(SENT)ENCE
• ASTE(RISK)INESS
• B(REVE)RSE
• BA(THES)AURUS
• BI(GRAM)PA
• CED(ILLA)TIVE
• DIA(LECT)URE
• EGG(CORN)BREAD
• ESPER(ANTO)NYM
• EVI(DENT)AL
• FAL(CONS)ONANT
• H(ALVE)OLAR
• IM(PALA)TAL
• LA(CUNE)IFORM
• LEX(ICON)OCLAST
• MONO(POLY)SEMY
• NOS(TRIL)L
• OG(LING)UIST
• S(LANG)UAGE
• V(IDEO)LECT
• AD(JUNCT)ION
• AGGLUTIN(ATING)LE
• ALLO(MORPH)EME
• APHAE(RESIS)TANCE
• CATH(ARTIC)ULATE
• DETER(MINER)AL
• DISC(OURSE)LVES
• DYS(LEXIC)OGRAPHY
• M(ACRON)YM
• ALLITE(RATION)ALIZE
• ETYMO(LOGIST)ICAL
• OB(STRUCT)URALISM
• ONO(MASTIC)ATE
• SNOWMO(BILING)UAL
• AD(DICTION)ARY
• DI(ACRITIC)AL
• PLU(PERFECT)ION
• NON(DESCRIPT)IVE
• NON(REPRESENTATIONAL)LY
  or NON(AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL)LY
  or NON(TRANSFORMATIONAL)LY

Double or Nothing—Schön “Sean” Kaunis, Ph.D.

• MOUTH—ACUTE—MORPH—RECAP
• CHAIN—VOCAL—WHINE—VOWEL
• VOICE—CAVES—LINGO—SLANG
• LOGIC—CHIME—GLORY—RHYME
• WAGES—SCHWA—CHILD—GLIDE
• VELAR—SHAVE—FLIRT—SHIFT
• LUNGS—SNAKE—PLUGS—SPEAK
• DONUT—PITCH—SOUND—CHIPS

Critical Readings in Linguistics Crossword Puzzle—Puzzle from Psammeticus Press

The solution to this puzzle is not readily available. While our intrepid Flo scored all the other puzzles, we were required to submit all potential solutions to this crossword directly to Psammeticus Press for evaluation. Despite submitting thousands of potential solutions, the only one considered correct was the solution submitted by H.D. Onesimus, Jr. Our records indicate that we did not transmit a potential solution for any H.D. Onesimus, Jr. Curious, that.

In any event, of the potential solutions we did submit, the one from SpecGram Puzzle Meister Sara Kessler was rated by PsPress to be 99.99999% correct. PsPress claims Sara did not meet the unstated eligibility requirements, which include owning all the relevant publications, including a Lingo. Since all Lingos have LoJack and none are in Israel, they know she doesn’t actually own one. Thus her solution is worth 0 points for the purposes of the contest.

PsPress refused to allow us to publish their solution to the puzzle, so we have reproduced Sara’s solution below. Individuals may purchase the 100% correct solution directly from PsPress for $250.

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In appreciation of Sara’s efforts, we have awarded her a 75-year subscription to the print edition of our journal.

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