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 » Itchy Feet.
From marie-lucie’s Facebook feed, I have belatedly discovered Itchy Feet, “a travel and language comic by Malachi Ray Rempen.” She linked to the strip Vanilla Arabic, which is hilarious; in the comments to m-l’s post, Slavomír Čéplö (aka bulbul) said “One quibble: for most intents and purposes, Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic are the same variety, Quranic Arabic is … [Link]
Language Log » Digraphia and intentional miswriting
I received the following message from David Moser on 6/2/11, but it got lost in my inbox until just now when I was able to retrieve it while cleaning out a bunch of old and unwanted messages: Wow, talk about digraphia! I just got this text message on my cell phone here in Beijing: 本酒店为您 ti 供大学笙，模 te, 空 jie及外国 … [Link]
Language Log » Linguistic dominance in House of Cards
You may have seen "The Ascent: Political Destiny and the Makings of a First Couple", now featured on the e-front-cover of The Atlantic magazine: 
If you click on the link, the top left of the resulting page bears a little tag telling you that you're reading "sponsored content" — and if you mouseover that tag, you'll learn that This content was … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » dat ass doe
That ass though.A woman can be an idiot, or have an ugly face, but if she has a nice ass it makes you want to say "dat ass doe" The same is true of her legs, "Dem legs doe!" "Them legs though" "Dat hoe has got an ugly face, but dat ass doe"Friend 1: "that girl is stupid." Friend 2: … [Link]
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