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 » Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications.
This is wonderful: CLICS is an online database of synchronic lexical associations (“colexifications”, see here for more information) in currently 221 language varieties of the world. Large databases offering lexical information on the world’s languages are already readily available for research in different online sources. However, the information on tendencies of meaning associations they enshrine is not easily extractable from … [Link]
the world in words » A University of Kansas linguist is risking Russia’s ire in helping Kazakhstan change its writing system
Will these Kazakh schoolchildren use Cyrillic or Latin script in the future? (Photo: Maxim Zolotukhin/World Bank via Flickr)Kazakhstan has decided that its national language, Kazakh, needs a new writing system. For decades, it has been using the Cyrillic script, a legacy of Soviet times. Now, though, Kazakhstan’s long-term president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has been re-orienting his country away from Moscow, and toward … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » fappening
an event that occurs when someone on the internet releases a large amount of fappable or nude/semi-nude pictures of famous people. "When those girls hit up the topless beaches in Spain, a great fappening will consume the internet."
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