Almost everyone uses language, so inevitably almost everyone thinks they are an expert in it. I don’t consider myself an expert, though most of my work requires at least language competence and sometimes actual skill, but I do follow the blogs featured on this feeds page.
(If you are wondering where the translation-related feeds have all gone, I have put them on their own page.)
Most of the blogs represented here are in English, most of the time, but don’t be surprised to find other languages used. Go with the flow – I occasionally find myself pleasantly surprised at how much I can grasp in languages I have never seen before.
Language On the Net
Language Log » Ambassador Entwistle and Lolo 1 on Wazobia
"Exclusive Interview at Wazobia FM 95.1FM With Lolo 1 and the United States Ambassador to Nigeria", 1/30/2014: NPR's Weekend Edition covered this interview a couple of days ago: "U.S. Ambassador Speaks Pidgin English; Nigerians Love It", 3/15/2014. Wazobia FM is the first Nigerian media outlet to broadcast in Pidgin English, also (according to Ethnologue) known as "Broken English, Brokin, Brokun, … [Link]
Language Log » When 90% is 32%
I've occasionally complained that when it comes to comparing sampled distributions, modern western intellectuals are mostly just as clueless as the members of the Pirahã tribe in the Amazon are said to be with respect to counting (see e.g. "The Pirahã and us", 10/6/2007). And it doesn't take high-falutin concepts like "variance" or "effect size" to engage this incapacity — … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Restless Dick Syndrome
When you try and and wake up your bed-mate in the middle of the night by poking her in the back with your burgeoning hard on. Cathy: "I didn't get a wink of sleep last night. Fuckin' 3 a.m. and Ronnie gets a bad case of the Restless Dick Syndrome! There oughta be a pill!"
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