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 » Sut.
Olga Khazan has an amusing account in The Atlantic of going to Russia and trying to use her very rusty native language. I enjoyed it, of course, but one section requires amendment, since she doesn’t seem to have quite understood what was going on: We’re sitting in a cafe with my cousin, who has lived in Leningrad/Saint Petersburg her entire … [Link]
Language Log » Transliteration follies
From Arun Tharuvai, via his Twitter account, we find that Intersecting Bubbles has this brief but fascinating post on a multilingual notice: "Shell Petroleum thinks that Hindi is English written in the Devanagari Script ". It describes a routine notification from Shell petroleum warning people not to dig where they might accidentally rupture a gas pipeline. The warning was accompanied … [Link]
Wordorigins.org » In a World Where Protolanguages Could Not Be Understood…
We all know that academic titles don’t exactly sell like hotcakes, but I’m not sure this marketing strategy will actually work. You may recall George Walkden from this previous post and this follow-up on the use of hwæt in Old English poetry. Tip o’ the Hat: languagehat [Discuss this post] [Link]
Omniglot blog » Cigire or Cigydd? Cross-language confusion
Last week in Ireland on the last night of the course each class played some tunes, did a sketch, sang songs, and/or did some other party piece. One of the Irish language classes did a sketch about a bunch of unruly school kids whose class was being visited by an inspector, played by Paul Kavanagh, Irish Ambassador to China. When … [Link]
Language Log » Fillers: Autism, gender, and age
K. Gorman et al., "Children's Use of Disfluencies Distinguish ASD and Language Impairment", IMFAR 2014 (emphasis added): This study compares the relative frequencies of "uh" and "um" in the spontaneous speech of children with ASD (with or without comorbid language impairment) to two control groups. Methods: Participants: 112 children ages 3;10–9;0 participated: ASD (50), Specific Language Impairment (SLI; 18), and … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Bropinion
Your bro's opinion. Bro 1: So what do you think about Sara? Bro 2 : Don't let my opinion stop you, go for it. Bro1 : No, I care about your bropinion.
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