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
Omniglot blog » Changing accents
I heard an interesting discussion on Radio Cymru recently about accents. They talked about Welsh, and English, regional accents that have negative associations for people from other regions, or that people find difficult to follow, and whether they would change their accent to make it easier for others to understand them, and/or to avoid the negative associations. My accent has … [Link]
Language Log » Orient(al[ism]) in East Asian languages
Cortney Chaffin writes: Today I've been corresponding over email with a colleague of mine at XYUniversity who organized an exhibition of Korean art to open tomorrow. Yesterday he sent out a description of the exhibit in which he used the phrases "oriental landscape painting" (in contrast to Western painting) and "oriental sensitivity" to describe the aim of the artist (to … [Link]
the world in words » Some people have re-imagined English as Anglish, with no words derived from French or Latin
Tom Rowsell examines a replica of an Anglo-Saxon helmet Here’s a guest post from Tom Rowsell. It’s common knowledge that languages are fluid things which merge into one another and evolve to become new languages. But the way they change isn’t necessarily natural or arbitrary. The changes that occur to languages are often the result of wars, genocides, mass migrations, political … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Bitch stare
A look usually given by girls to other girls to intimidate. Girls that do this can be described as a bitch face. You look right up and down them and then look into their eyes like ¬_¬ and then usually walk off. She gave me a bitch stare and walked off.
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