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
Language Log » Since the beginning of history
I have mentioned chinaSMACK before on Language Log, but have never featured it so directly as in this post. The reason is that this time there's an interesting language aspect to one of their articles that is hard to pass up. chinaSMACK specializes in translating trenchant, amazing stories from the vast amount of traffic that flows through China's microblogs and … [Link]
languagehat.com » Etalon.
This is one of those words that always eludes me no matter how many times I look it up, and I’m hoping that writing about it will implant it more firmly in my brain. I’m reading Samuil A. Lurie’s Изломанный аршин ['Broken cubit-ruler,' an insulting nineteenth-century term for a merchant] (see this post) and enjoying it immensely; after brilliantly annotating … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Merry Christmas
***********************************~ A multlingual Merry Christmas and happy language learning in the New Year! ***********************************~ 
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Language Log » Where the language diversity is
In the articles-noted-but-not-yet-studied pile: an article on language diversity in a journal that (as reader Ted McClure points out to me) linguists might easily have missed (though at least some linguistics blogs covered it): in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (281, 20133029), earlier this year, Jacob Bock Axelsen and Susanna Manrubia published a paper entitled "River density … [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? Share [Link]
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