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 » Location Man
Following up on Andy Bodle's exegesis of headlinese, we should take a look at the Florida Man meme: Florida Man is a Twitter feed that curates news headline descriptions of bizarre domestic incidents involving a male subject residing in the state of Florida. The tweets are meant to be humorously read as if they were perpetrated by a single individual … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Language acquisition
I spent Christmas with my family at my brother’s house in Devon in the south west of England. His daughter is now 20 months old and it’s fascinating to see how she’s acquiring language. The last time I saw her was at Easter this year when she was nearly a year old. At that time she was able to say … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Year
12 months of absolute hell and fuckery TV: -Ball drops- Everyone: WOOT WOOT ET IS YEAR 2014 Person 1: -sarcastic- yay, another 12 months of fuckery and hell
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languagehat.com » Written Language Quiz.
From Anotherquiz.com: Can You Identify 11 Languages By Their Writing? They call it “Our hardest trivia yet!” but I found it ridiculously easy; I got 11 of 11, and there were only a couple about which I felt even a momentary doubt, enough to make me take a closer look before hitting the button. It seemed like they weren’t even … [Link]
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