I always forget about SpecGram because until this evening, I was only subscribed to their mailing list via my aged and decrepit Hotmail account, although now I have rectified the situation by RSSing myself up. The current issue is a bit hardcore in its pseudo-geekery and meta-meta-humour, even for me, but while I was there, I checked out the December issue and had a good chortle at How They Do It in Linguistics ("Syntacticians do it with trees," "Neurolinguists do it with magnets," "Phonologists do it with deviation," ad infinitum, ad nauseam)--ah, the oldies but goodies--and a poetic dual between a "practical speller" and a "skeptical speller," of which I am sure that George Bernard ghoti Shaw would approve [edit: annoyingly, that reference was included at the end of the poem so I can't claim to be clever here, although I did think of it by myself].
Linguistics is so fun anecdotally, or in blog format...
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