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 » Veltman’s Wigs.
I’m about a third of the way through Alexander Veltman’s novel Приключения, почерпнутые из моря житейского (Adventures drawn from the sea of life, published in book form as Саломея [Salomea] — see this LH post), and I’m completely hooked. (One of the problems with recommending Veltman to people is that he’s the opposite of one of those grab-the-reader-by-the-lapels-and-d~ writers; he … [Link]
the world in words » The grammar of cuisine
Is this food combination ungrammatical? (Photo: Ryan Basilio/Flickr) Here’s a post from Nina Porzucki. You are what you eat, or so the saying goes. And much of what we eat — and how we eat it — is influenced by what linguist Dan Jurafsky calls the “grammar” of food. “The grammar of cuisine is the idea that every culture has a … [Link]
Language Log » "Free, white, and twenty one"
Sometimes I think that Philip K. Dick is passing the time in purgatory by ghostwriting news stories like this one – "Atlantic City's Revel Casino reimagined as elite school", Reuters 9/22/2014: 
A Florida developer who made a $90 million offer for Atlantic City's shuttered Revel Casino wants to use the site to help end world hunger, cancer, and resolve other pressing … [Link]
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