Introduction

In order to lend a hand to our good friends and steadfast supporters over at the Linguist List during their 2006 fund drive, we prepared a small selection of limited edition SpecGram merchandise, including T-shirts, stickers and magnets. Originally these items were only available as prizes awarded as part of the Linguist List fund drive.

In 2012, several of the SpecGram editors suffered from a rare form of collective frontal lobe damage, which made it seem like a good idea to put together a SpecGram book. The result in 2013 was The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics.

In 2014, Editor Mikael Thompson entered a deep fugue state and emerged months later on the wrong side of the planet, with the manuscript of Strangecraft in hand.

In 2018—after decades of threatening to do so—Editor Emeritus Tim Pulju finally called our bluff, cashed in all his chips, lost most of his marbles, and demanded that Speculative Grammarian Press print his long-time labor of love, The History of Rome.

Discussion

As a result of initial positive feedback, we expanded the range of available SpecGram-themed products to include sweatshirts, hoodies,¹ coffee mugs, mouse pads, tote bags, and even boxers and thongs.²

In contrast, despite a lack of any feedback whatsoever, we decided to unleash The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics on an unsuspecting and ill-prepared world.

The voices—we all heard them—demanded unequivocally that Strangecraft—that slow-burning novel-length weird tale of a personal story, told against a stygian, cosmic-scale backdrop—be published.

The only way to get Editor Emeritus Pulju back in his office for the nap he so sorely needed was to make good on our promise to let loose The History of Rome on a naïve and unwilling public.

Some Example Data

Follow one of the links below to be taken to an Amazon or Gumroad⁸ page where you can purchase The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics as either a physical book for you or as a PDF for your e-reader. Or, if you haven’t quite convinced yourself to buy the book and you’d like to learn more about it, you can visit our webpage provided for that purpose.

Stangecraft is available to read for free in the pages of SpecGram, or you can purchase a PDF version from Gumroad for your e-reader.

The History of Rome is so very classical that it is only available as a physical book, from Amazon—though it, too, has a webpage where those unable to instantly recognize its genius can learn more about it.

The Speculative Grammarian
Essential Guide to Linguistics

Buy the book from Amazon
or the PDF from Gumroad.

Strangecraft

Buy the PDF from Gumroad.

The History of Rome

Buy the book from Amazon.

Further Example Data

Click on any of the images below to be taken to a CafePress⁵ page where you can browse and purchase items of interest with the images and taglines depicted below. You may freely return to this page from the CafePress website in order to browse additional items in a different style. Items from multiple CafePress webpages may be purchased at once⁶ when your browsing is complete.

Anglomorphic Cuneiform
“Why Princes are not Scribes, and the Rat Eats Grain,” SpecGram CLXIV.λ
“Anglomorphic Cuneiform,” SpecGram CLXIV.3
“Anglomorphic Cuneiform and Puzzle Solution,” SpecGram CLXIV.4

G.U.I.L.T.

“G.U.I.L.T.y Pleasures—A Complete and Comprehensive Theory of Language, Linguistics, and Everything,” SpecGram CLXV.3

Orthographic Revolution!



“English Writing System Reform—An Immodest Proposal,” SpecGram CLXV.4

The Best Lx Bands Evar!!

“The Best Lx Bands Evar!!,” SpecGram CLXIV.1

Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Grice

“Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Part 14—Gricean Implicature,” SpecGram CLV.2

SpecGram Suzie

“SpecGram Suzie,” SpecGram CLIII.4

Lightning

“Don’t Phrase Me, Bro!”

Lightning

“Don’t Phrase Me, Bro!”

Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Phonetics

“Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Part E—Phonetics vs. Phonology,” SpecGram CLIII.1

Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Phonology

“Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Part E—Phonetics vs. Phonology,” SpecGram CLIII.1

Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—NLP

“Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Part ж—The Trouble with NLP,” SpecGram CLIII.4

Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—NLP

“Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Part ж—The Trouble with NLP,” SpecGram CLIII.4

Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Morphological Typology

“Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Part 3—Morphological Typology,” SpecGram CLII.3

Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—NLP

“Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Part ж—The Trouble with NLP,” SpecGram CLIII.4

Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—NLP

“Cartoon Theories of Linguistics—Part ж—The Trouble with NLP,” SpecGram CLIII.4

Stupid Phonetics Tricks


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All your morpheme...

SpecGram Volume CXLIX, No. 1

Linguizzle

SpecGram Volume CXLIX, No. 2

Ainu Teapot

“Linguistic Topology,” SpecGram CL.2

Stratificational Macaroni and Cheese

“A Stratificational Approach to Making Macaroni and Cheese,” PsQ XVI.1

A Timeless Classic

Conclusions

Now you can proudly display your allegiance to Speculative Grammarian to the world with a SpecGram T-shirt, book, coffee mug, or mouse pad. Confuse your colleagues. Flabbergast your friends. Enfeeble your enemies. All will⁷ bow before you once they realize the full magnitude of your loyalty to SpecGram.

So that we may gather more data and further our research in this area, we ask that you please send your comments and suggestions to us.