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 » CXO
Under the Subject line "Notice of Online Survey of Higher Ed CMOs", I got an email last week from someone who described herself as the Chief Marketing Officer of the Chronicle of Higher Education. It began like this: Dear Mark, The Chronicle of Higher Education has partnered with SimpsonScarborough, a higher education market research firm, to study the organization and … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Oideas Gael
I’m having a wonderful time in Gleann Cholm Cille learning to play the harp and speaking plenty of Irish. The course is going really well – we started with basic techniques, and have learnt a number of tunes, including some from the Bóroimhe / Brian Boru suite by Michael Rooney. I’ve videoed our teacher, Oisín Morrison, playing all the pieces … [Link]
languagehat.com » The History of Autocorrect.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus has a Wired article that works a little too hard to be relentlessly amusing but tells an interesting story about how autocorrect came to be and how it works: The notion of autocorrect was born when Hachamovitch began thinking about a functionality that already existed in Word. Thanks to Charles Simonyi, the longtime Microsoft executive widely recognized as … [Link]
Wordorigins.org » conventional weapon / weapon of mass destruction
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Language Log » The most awkward crash blossom ever?
This: BREAKING: Dutch military plane carrying bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash lands in Eindhoven. — The Associated Press (@AP) July 23, 2014 [h.t. Omri Ceren] The Washington Post, among others, used the AP headline unaltered: 
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Wordorigins.org » weapon of mass destruction / conventional weapon
Most people became aware of the term weapon of mass destruction during the run up to the first Gulf War in 1990–91. And it again entered the public consciousness during the second war with Iraq which started twelve years later. Both times Saddam Hussein had been thought to have developed these nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, an assessment that was … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » steppin on my dick
when someone disrespects your manhood. chick: you can't even pay for dinner or kill a spider, what's wrong with you guy: damn quit steppin on my dick!
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