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
Urban Word of the Day » Platonic jealousy
When a close friend of yours hangs out with someone else, and you feel jealous that they aren't hanging out with you. Bob: Hey, where's Alice? Carol: She's hanging out with Dana today. Just like yesterday…I think I'm coming down with a case of platonic jealousy.
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Language Log » A [class.] zoo
In English, if we want to say something about a place where a lot of different kinds of animals are kept for viewing by the public, we just refer to it as "a zoo". Ditto for other quantifiable or specifiable nouns. But in Chinese, you usually have to put a measure word [m.w.] or classifier [class.] between the quantifier or … [Link]
languagehat.com » The Definition of a Dictionary.
Stefan Fatsis has a good (and very long) piece in Slate on Merriam-Webster’s revision of its unabridged dictionary; if you want to know what ever happened to the long-promised Fourth, you will learn all about it. It also turns out — and this saddens me — that there isn’t going to be a 12th edition of the Collegiate any time … [Link]
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