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 » Nth Xest
In the course of writing about the "fourth highest of five levels", I looked around at how the pattern "Nth Xest" is used in general. I found that uses of such expressions overwhelmingly count from the "top" where X names a top-oriented scale (high, big, long, etc.), and count from the "bottom" where X names a bottom-oriented scale (low, small, … [Link]
Language Log » Poetic contrastive focus reduplication
From Nancy Friedman — Billy Collins, "After the Funeral", in Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems, 2013: For those who can't access the Google Books version, the same poem can be found as the second item in this page at Boulevard magazine. Previous LLOG discussion of the phenomenon: "Contrastive focus reduplication in Zits", 6/11/2007 "Reduplication reduplication", 6/28/2007 [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Labor Day
Every day that I have to drag my lazy ass out of bed and go to my shitty job. Goddamnit, it's 6 am. I've got to get up for work. Another Labor Day!
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