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 » Chinese and Indo-European Roots and Analogues.
Matt at No-sword has a post about the 1861 paper “Chinese and Indo-European Roots and Analogues” by Pliny Earle Chase (Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 8, pp. 5-48): Spoiler: Chase would like to suggest that the Roman alphabet (and its sister scripts) are derived from the Chinese writing system. (I’m having trouble reproducing the example passages properly, but you … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Stockungen
While listening to Deutschlandradio this morning one word that kept on coming up and that I didn’t understand was Stockung. It appears mainly in traffic reports, so I assume it meant something like delays or traffic jams. According to Reverso, Stockung means: – interruption, hold-up; congestion, traffic jam, hold-up – breakdown (in negotiations) – slackening or dropping off (in trade/business) … [Link]
Language Log » Comments
A recent story in a Las Vegas newspaper ("Shooters in Metro ambush that left five dead spoke of white supremacy and a desire to kill police", Las Vegas Review-Journal 6/8/2014) now has 15,793 comments. Reading through a small sample of them, I wasn't surprised by the usual teabugger vs. libturd name-calling. And I expected a smattering of various sorts of … [Link]
Wordorigins.org » The Future of Indian English
An interesting article in the New York Review of Books on the rise and perhaps fall of English as the national language of India. [Discuss this post] [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Strong Eyebrow Game
The act of having perfect eyebrows, usually with lots of character. Zachary Quinto has such strong eyebrow game. But then again, Matt Smith's game is pretty strong too.
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