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 » compulsive highlighter
A person who, when reading text on a computer screen, cannot help but constantly select, deselect, and reselect the text.This highlighting ranges from constantly clicking the text at random, highlighting the words as they are read, or highlighting the words as a bookmark to stay on track. Jimmy is a compulsive highlighter; he constantly clicks at his computer screen even … [Link]
languagehat.com » Chikungunya and Dengue.
Scott B. Halstead’s “Reappearance of Chikungunya, Formerly Called Dengue, in the Americas” (Emerg. Infect. Dis. 21, April 2015) is an interesting look at a confusing situation of diseases and disease names; the abstract says: After an absence of ≈200 years, chikungunya returned to the American tropics in 2013. The virus is maintained in a complex African zoonotic cycle but escapes … [Link]
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