January, February, & March 2026: Abridged sonnets and legible arrangements (opens in new tab)

In the first quarter of the year, I attended the Linguistic Society of America 2026 annual meeting online and admired how linguists are really great at pronouncing people’s names (phonetic transcription is a practical skill!).I narrated the audiobook for Shakespeare’s Sonnets Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness by Zach Weinersmith, featuring sonnets turned into couplets like “When in…January, February, & March 2026: Abridged sonnets and legible arrangements