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
Omniglot blog » Language, accents and tourism
I came across an interesting article today about ways to attract tourists with regional accents and languages. It discuses moves to encourage the use of French in parts of Canada and Louisiana, and Irish in Ireland, as well as regional accents in Newfoundland and in Skane in southern Sweden. People from the regions are promoting their languages and accents to … [Link]
Language Log » Lecture tomorrow at the Simons Foundation
Tomorrow afternoon, I'll be giving a talk at the Simons Foundation (160 5th Avenue, New York NY) with the title "Reproducible Research and the Common Task Method". Despite the April 1 date, the topic is a serious one. For some background on why the concept of "Reproducible Research" is currently a hot topic, see Paul Voosen, "Amid a Sea of … [Link]
Language Log » Miracles of Human Language
Below is a guest post by Marten van der Meulen, who is a teaching assistant for this course. On March 30th, the Massive Open Online Course (or MOOC) Miracles of Human Language: an Introduction to Linguistics will start on Coursera. The course is facilitated by Leiden University, and is given by Marc van Oostendorp, professor at Leiden University and the … [Link]
Language Log » LEXHUB
From Christie Versagli: It's with enthusiasm that we at the World Well-Being Project (University of Pennsylvania) would like to share with you the launch of lexhub.org, a hub for data, tools, papers, and almost any resource in the growing field of language analysis for social science. Standing at the crossroads between computational linguistics and social science, LexHub is an online … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » to give someone the moon door
To break up with somebody.Alternatively, it means to fire somebody from a job.Basically, the word describes any situation in which someone's position or status is completely stripped away from them in one fell swoop.This phrase derives from the book and TV series, Game of Thrones, in which there is a castle on a high mountain with a hatch built into … [Link]
languagehat.com » Hen.
Sweden adds gender-neutral pronoun to dictionary: The official dictionary of the Swedish language will introduce a gender-neutral pronoun in April, editors at the Swedish Academy have announced. “Hen” will be added to “han” (he) and “hon” (she) as one of 13,000 new words in the latest edition of the Swedish Academy’s SAOL. […] The word “hen” was coined in the … [Link]
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