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
Talk Wordy to Me » Walk through the neighborhood
Today was the first sunny day we’ve had in a week, so I finally got out in the neighborhood with my new camera. I’m playing with Lyn to organize and edit my photos. It is working pretty well. A lot less bells and whistles than Picasa, and a lot more fine-tuning options. [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 » Editing error or recursive construction, Take 2
Lant Pritchett & Lawrence H. Summers, "Growth slowdowns: Middle-income trap vs. regression to the mean", Vox 12/11/2014: No question is more important for the living standards of billions of people or for the evolution of the global system than the question of how rapidly differently economies will grow over the next generation. Is this a slip of the fingers (e.g. … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » neargasm
the frustrated feeling of being on the brink of something fantastic but never actually tasting that satisfaction. She teased me forever – I would have complained but it was the best neargasm of my life.
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Language Log » "No Turkish leader has had as much influence as Ataturk as Erdogan"
Ishaan Tharoor, "Why Turkey’s president wants to revive the language of the Ottoman Empire", WaPo 12/12/2014: In 1928, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founding father of the modern Turkish republic, enacted one of the more dramatic and radical reforms of the 20th century. Ataturk ordered the wholesale transformation of the Turkish language: He instituted a Latin alphabet, abandoning more than a … [Link]
languagehat.com » Berger on Translation and Lewis Translating.
I love John Berger’s writing but am often suspicious of his ideas, and so it is with his new essay on translation. He says “true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair”: The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation … [Link]
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