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 » Sittlichkeit and Thought.
Michael Rosen has a review of the terrifyingly gargantuan The Impact of Idealism: The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought (four volumes, 1,690pp., £240/$365) in the Oct. 17 TLS (illustrated with a cropped version of this fetching image of Hegel lecturing), and I was struck by a couple of linguistic tidbits. This is hilarious (whether or not it’s true I leave … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Reverse psychology and language learning
Yesterday I met Aran Jones, the guy behind the website SaySomethingin.com, and we had a very interesting chat, in Welsh, about language learning. His site started as a Welsh language course, and now also offers courses in Cornish, Dutch, Latin and Spanish. You can learn all these languages through English or Welsh, and you can also learn English and Welsh … [Link]
Language Log » On thee-yuh fillers uh and um
Below is a guest post by Herbert H. Clark and Jean E. Fox Tree. In 2002 the two of us published a paper in Cognition called “Using uh and um in spontaneous speaking.” We argued that uh and um are conventional English words, but of a special type. Our hypothesis was this (p. 79): Filler-as-word hypothesis. Uh and um are … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » cannilingus
The use of the tongue to find the opening in the top of a beverage can, when it's too dark to see. While driving 80mph down the 87 freeway, Steve deftly applied cannilingus to drain the remaining contents of his Schlitz.
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languagehat.com » Dostoevsky’s Landlady.
I took a break from Veltman to read one of Dostoevsky’s early stories, Хозяйка [The Landlady]. I fear Victor Terras is quite correct in calling it “perhaps the only outright failure Dostoevsky ever produced”; he sums it up very well: The story begins in a nervous, precariously balanced style, neither ironic nor stylized, just tense and highstrung. But then, beginning … [Link]
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