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 » What I look like
… to an enterprising Beijing street artist, who sketched most of this while walking unnoticed alongside me, and then offered to sell it to me while adding the last few strokes and the caption. Shengli Feng cheerfully bargained him down to a third of the asking price. The air was good — blue sky and clouds were visible, which I gather … [Link]
Language Log » Supreme Court steps away from fetishization of dictionaries, strikes a blow for usage and practice
Below is a guest post by Jason Merchant: Yesterday, the US Supreme Court announced its decision in the case NLRB v. Noel Canning, a case that turns on the interpretation of the Recess Appointments clause, Art. II sec. 2, cl. 3 of the US Constitution: "The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the … [Link]
the world in words » How FIFA overcame soccer’s language barrier
Photo: eko via FlickrHere’s a guest post from The Big Show’s Nina Porzucki. The World Cup kicked off this with a match between Brazil and Croatia officiated by a Japanese referee. How do Croatians, Brazilians and Japanese communicate on the field? After the Croatian team lost the opening match, the Croatian player, Vedran Corluka complained that he couldn’t understand the referee. … [Link]
languagehat.com » Zahir on Lushootseed.
A correspondent writes: “Here are a couple of videos from a guy I’m a big fan of, Zeke Zahir, a speaker of Puget Sound Salish (Lushootseed).” The first is a thirteen-minute talk by Zahir (his father was from Afghanistan) about how he came to learn Lushootseed (xʷəlšucid) and discussions he had with Vi Hilbert (taqʷšəblu), according to Wikipedia the last … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » hoe base
A sum of hoes from which you may pick for a booty call when sexually frustrated. "Dude, now that you're single again you have to start building back up your hoe base"
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Language Log » Suspect
Keith Ablow, the Fox News Channel's resident expert on psychiatry, on Outnumbered, 6/26/2014, explaining why the World Cup is a plot to distract the masses from Benghazi or whatever: I'm suspect. Uh I am suspect. Because here's the thing, Um why at a time when there're so many national issues that- and international issues that are of such prominence, I- … [Link]
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