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
languagehat.com » More on Ninilchik.
Five years ago I posted about a dialect of Russian spoken in the Alaskan village of Ninilchik; here‘s an interview with Mira Bergelson, professor of linguistics at Moscow University, that gives some background and continues the story: Andrei was making his survey of the Upper Kuskokwim language [in 1997], when, suddenly, we were approached by activists from the settlement of … [Link]
Language Log » Free of Smoke
The following photograph was taken at Dolphin Discovery on the island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands: 
Bob Ackerman, who sent this to me, also provided these helpful notes: This is an odd sign in more respects than one. This is on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands (or, as they prefer, just the Virgin Islands). The islands had … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Smoking Funky Radio
The word radio is based on the verb to radiate, which comes from the Latin radius, which means stick rod; beam, ray (of light); shuttle (of loom); rod for drawing figures (in mathematics), radius of circle; long olive (plant); spoke (of wheel). Radio or radiotelegraphy, the wireless transmission of signals through space by electromagnetic radiation of a frequency below that … [Link]
World Wide Words: Updates » New online: Sugar daddy
'Sugar daddy' was popularised by a New York murder in 1923. [Link]
World Wide Words: Updates » New online: Supernaculum
'Supernaculum' is from a drinking game popular in Shakespeare's circle. [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » coprophilia
An obsessive interest in feces. My cousin Randy puts the "pro" in coprophilia. He's super into shit.
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