Well, yesterday I posted a fictional story (or was it?) about how I became the Intergalactic Minister of Arts & Culture after being abducted by space aliens with very, very strange names.

Today, I’ve re-worked “Language Contact & Historical Linguistics,” a paper I originally wrote in 1998. As I noted yesterday, I’ve seen these two articles referenced numerous times on the Internet, including by professors putting together course materials. So we must keep them up, mustn’t we, my precious? 😉