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 » Cartoon Theories of Linguistics.
Far, far back in the murky mist of the distant past, nearly unrecoverable by present methods — to wit, in January 2007 — Speculative Grammarian™ began a series called Cartoon Theories of Linguistics; that first installment, on Non-Configurational Languages, explained that “we should be able to reduce the essence of important linguistic concepts to something we can explain to that … [Link]
Language Log » Happy. Fourth.
In anticipation of the 4th of July weekend, I was compelled to read this very interesting (July 1 draft) manuscript: "Punctuating Happiness", by UPS Foundation Professor Danielle S. Allen of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. A political theorist friend's Facebook post led me both to the article and to this front-page NYT piece on it: "If Only Thomas … [Link]
Language Log » Canada Day: Sorry!
Apparently it's a stereotype that Canadians are always apologizing. Thus Jordan Rane, "10 things Canada does better than anywhere else", CNN 7/1/2014: In Canada, apologies happen constantly — "sorries" flying in from all sides like swarms of affable killer bees. Apologies are issued not just for some negligible mishap, but for actually having the gall to be on the receiving … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » mouthgasm
When you eat something that causes you to make pleasurable sounds out loud, exactly like the ones that you make when you have a orgasm. "Oh my god, mmmmm, Oh my god, mmmmm, oh fuck". "Are you ok"? "Yeah. I think I just had a mouthgasm though".
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