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
Wordorigins.org » redskin, red man
Redskin, a now disparaging term for a Native American, is nearly two and a half centuries old. It is first recorded in a transcript of a speech given by Chief Maringouin, an Indian of the Illinois people, on 26 August 1769. It was interpreted by a Frenchman from the Illinois language and transcribed and translated into English by William Johnson: … [Link]
languagehat.com » The Language of the Game.
As I wrote here, I got David Goldblatt’s The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer 
Urban Word of the Day » Show Beer
When you show up with a 12-pack of cheap beer so you're not empty handed. Then you drink the good beer provided by the host and everyone else. What!? There's a freaking keg of Green Line and I'm drinking show beer!?
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languagehat.com » Superlative Violence.
Sandra Blakeslee’s NY Times piece “Computing Crime and Punishment,” while very interesting (it’s about the use of the trial records of the Old Bailey to help analyze in detail how the British criminal justice system came to distinguish between violent and nonviolent crimes), doesn’t have much to do with language until the end: To simplify their task, the researchers turned … [Link]
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