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My interests in language, math, and computers were sparked and strengthened by exposure to the works of Willard R. Espy, Louis Phillips, Mike Keith, Dmitri Borgmann, Jim Butterfield, and others. These writers share a great talent for making technical or linguistic topics fun and accessible to a general audience. This page collects some of my own contributions to popular and recreational mathematics and linguistics, plus a few other odds and ends.
Logology, or recreational linguistics, is the study and practice of word games and wordplay. Since 2012 I've been writing the Language Games column for Babel: The Language Magazine, and I am a regular contributor of language-themed articles and puzzles to Lingo: The Language Magazine for Younger Readers, Games World of Puzzles (formerly Games Magazine), Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, and other magazines.
Lingo: The Language Magazine for Younger Readers
Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics
Shakespeare's Sonnet Generator
Russian–English homoglyphs, homographs, and homographic translations
The world's shortest personal names
Unigraphic lipogrammatic windows: A survey
Gadsby: Wikipedia's lost lipogram
These papers are mainly for fun, though some of them have some serious research content:
Why I will never have a girlfriend
Warum ich niemals eine Freundin haben werde
A255436: Number of distinct, connected, order-n subgraphs of the infinite knight's graph
New puzzles on knight-graphable words
A selection of my humorous poetry:
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