How Linguistics Got Her Groove Back; by Gunnr Gu\xf0r Entgegenl\xe4cheln; From Volume CLXIII, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, January 2012 \u2014 Common wisdom\u2014an oxymoron if ever there was one\u2014has it that linguistics and linguists themselves have a bit of a reputation problem. Are linguists boring? Incomprehensible? Pointless? Evil? The contention of this paper is\u2014given that perception is nine-tenths of reality\u2014unless we ask, we\u2019ll never know. (Read by Trey Jones, Joey Whitford, and Jonathan van der Meer.)