“Speculative Grammarian is to linguistics what The Onion is to news and The Journal of Irreproducible Results is to science. While the written articles can be rather technical and jargon-laden in their hilarity, the articles chosen for the podcast so far have been less technical—porbably because those translate better to the audio format. The podcasts also feature a variety of speakers. The episodes are short—just a few minutes—which is good news for the busy linguist or language lover on the go. These podcasts also feature entire transcripts as "lyrics", meaning you can read along on your iPhone or iPod Touch. As they say on their website: "Satirical Linguistics, the specialty of SpecGram, is a meta-field that covers everything from Abkhasian to Heinrich Zimmer. Everything linguistic is fair game—uh, that is—acceptable subject matter." Indeed!”
Satirical Linguist via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/17/09