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 » The D.C. Manual of Style and Usage.
As a copyeditor by profession, I love style manuals, especially when they’re not too hidebound and show their own sense of style. Submitted for your consideration, the D.C. Manual of Style and Usage of Washington City Paper; some of my favorite entries: D.C. Respect the periods! However, many organizations and campaigns don’t use the periods. Respect proper nouns! Gray, Vince … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Tumblr thumb
The act of scrolling incessantly through your tumblr pics, usually porn, which produces tumblr thumb: a soreness that comes from long term scrolling on your iPad. Hey, DuJuan, I'm rolling through the tumblr feed of all the new porn pics on Tumblr. Dude, I've got Tumblr thumb!
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Language Log » More fun with Facebook: THE
The script that I used to make that course assignment about Facebook pronouns ("Sex, age, and pronouns on Facebook", 9/19/2014; "More fun with Facebook pronouns", 9/27/2014) can trivially be focused on any other words — so here's "the": 
And "this": 
Also "those": 
And "that" (though the determiner version is mixed with the complementizer): 
And "which": 
For some reason, "these" doesn't … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Language quiz
Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken? 
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Language Log » For want of an apostrophe…
Via Lisa McLendon, aka Madam Grammar, comes this unfortunately (un)punctuated headline currently on Drudge Report: 
The headline links through to an article from the UK tabloid The Mirror: "The Snappening: Thousands of kids, some as young as 10, could have nude photos posted online." ("The Snappening" is the name given by 4chan hackers of the threatened release of 200,000 intercepted … [Link]
Language Log » Intelligibility and the language / dialect problem
From Anschel Schaffer-Cohen: I'm an avid Language Log reader, and as an amateur student of language politics I'm always fascinated by your discussions of language vs. dialect vs. topolect, and the role played by mutual intelligibility. As such, I was fascinated to see this quote show up in my Facebook newsfeed: 
From the last sentence this is obviously (translated into) … [Link]
languagehat.com » Farewell to Troubadour.
Seven years ago I sang the praises of Troubadour Books in North Hatfield (across the river from here); in 2010 I added an update saying that the store was moving to Hadley, where it would share a building with Grey Matter Books. (You can see the new bookstore in a 2011 video here: “Two Guys Sitting Around Talking About the … [Link]
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