Speculative Grammarian Podcast

Remembering Better Times; by Herbert Theodore Howlingstonshire, XII; From Volume CLXIII, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, January 2012 — It wasn’t long ago that the editors and staff of Speculative Grammarian could be found enjoying a snifter of brandy and a fine cigar in the Henry Suite of the Pāṇini Memorial Hall and Arcade in genial collegiality (or collegial geniality). Back in those days, we would gather together and pass the stogie and snifter around and chat about the golden days of antiquity: when spectrograms were measured manually, and a linguist commanded respect, whether it be in his office, in the lecture hall, or even the local speakeasy. (Read by Tuuli Mustasydän.)