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 » Betrayal of a Poet and His Greek.
A couple of years ago, at the end of a favorable review of Boris Gasparov’s Beyond Pure Reason 
Language Log » "… go all __ on you …"
Geoff Pullum wrote ("Adverbing, verbing, and adjectiving", 11/5/2014): … for the most part what you get in the go all ____ on you [frame] is adjective-headed phrases … While I hardly ever disagree with Geoff, my intuition said otherwise in this case, so I checked. Searching Google for "go all * on you", the first 50 results I got earlier … [Link]
Language Log » Moving house with military precision
I just moved house this week. (Had to. Lease unexpectedly terminated.) And colleagues and friends keep asking me how it went. I've decided on the right thing to say: "It was all executed like a military operation." The familiar simile (almost an idiom) always seems to be used with favorable connotations of tight organization and swift, flawless execution. But I'm … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Paddling poodles and dibbling ducks
Yesterday I discovered that poodles were bred to hunt ducks and other water fowl in Germany, and that the word poodle comes from the German Pudel, an abbreviation of Pudelhund (water dog), from the Low German Pudel (puddle), from pudeln (to splash about) [source]. The English word puddle is derived from the Old English word pudd (ditch), and is related … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » asf
Short for the expression "as fuck" I need to cuddle with someone right now because I am cold asf!!
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World Wide Words: Updates » New online: The Language Myth
Do humans have a language gene? Review of 'The Language Myth', by Vyvyan Evans. [Link]
languagehat.com » Albanian Resources Online.
Christopher Culver has a post on Romanian–Albanian parallels and the location of the Proto-Albanian Urheimat that begins with links to a couple of useful resources for anyone who might take a linguistic interest in Albanian: Ranko Matasović has written a freely available grammatical sketch of Albanian for students of Indo-European. This is a useful resource alongside the University of Texas … [Link]
Talk Wordy to Me » These little guys need a nice home
So, yeah, we have these little guys in our basement. Goofus is 6 and Foxy is 8. They are both healthy (but we’re taking them to the vet next week to be sure). We’d love to keep them, but our house is just too small with two other cats. I’d be happy to drive them anywhere in New England to … [Link]
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