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
World Wide Words: Updates » New online: Precrastination
Some of us seem wired to do things earlier than needed. It's been dubbed 'precrastination'. [Link]
World Wide Words: Updates » New online: Bounding main
What's the 'bounding main' and why does it bound? [Link]
World Wide Words: Updates » Updated online: Grok
'Grok' began in an SF book but has established itself in the language. [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » *_*
Star-struck. Hence stars as eyes. Ah mah facking gawd, did you see that guy? *_*!!!!
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languagehat.com » Bad English Shaming.
Feargus O’Sullivan posts for CityLab about an interesting and apparently new phenomenon, summed up by the subhead: “English has become the lingua franca of Europe. And politicians who can’t speak it well are getting roundly mocked by their own citizens.” Recently, the continent’s political masters have been slapped by a new form of satirical attack—Bad English Shaming. A viral-video sub-trend, … [Link]
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