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 » Free OUP Online Resources.
An Oxford University Press announcement says: Celebrate National Library Week! All OUP Online Resources are free April 13-19th Libraries are a vital part of our communities- they feed our curiosity, bolster our professional knowledge, and provide a launchpad for intellectual discovery. In celebration of these cornerstone institutions, we are offering unprecedented free access to all our Online Resources* [*Excluding journals] … [Link]
Wordorigins.org » Who We Are
Dave Wilton Dave Wilton has a PhD in medieval English Literature from the University of Toronto and teaches writing at Texas A&M University. His research focus is cognitive approaches to Old English lit, and his dissertation examines how metaphors in Old English literature can explicate Anglo-Saxon ideas and conceptions of the mind, agency, and free will. Dave also has an … [Link]
languagehat.com » Bewray the Repricon.
Last year I quoted (via MacDiarmid) a line attributed to T.S. Eliot, “Bewray the repricon, outstent the naze,” and added that I had no idea where he wrote it, if in fact he did. John Cowan just added a comment to that thread saying he had found via Google Books this snippet from p. 16 of James Devaney’s 1952 Poetry … [Link]
Language Log » So appealing
A few days ago, (someone using the initials) C D C commented: I get so annoyed when I hear sloppy English on the news. Today I heard that one of the killers of that soldier in London was going to "appeal his sentence" instead of "appeal against his sentence"! This was a free-floating peeve, completely unrelated to the content of … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » guy time
When men have quality time together, and do "guy" things. This is usually referred to when a guy wants to hang out with his friends. A man might tell his girl friend or significant other that he's about to or would like to participate in this. "Hey babe, me and my friends are gonna have some guy time this week…" … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Language quiz
Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken? 
Share [Link]
languagehat.com » Poor Folk II.
I’ve finished Poor Folk now (see this post), and although I got a bit impatient at times, it was enjoyable throughout and frequently moving. I was pleased to see that my prediction here that “the Pushkin story, about the mysterious fate of a young woman the narrator finds himself attracted to, is going to be relevant to the novel” was … [Link]
0 responses so far ↓
There are no comments yet...Kick things off by filling out the form below.
You must log in to post a comment.