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 » Half Man, Half Book.
I’m running behind in catching up with my NYRB subscription, so I’m still making my way through the issue from last Dec. 4, and I’ve gotten to Christian Caryl’s review (paywalled, I’m afraid) of Gerard Russell’s Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East 
Omniglot blog » Multilingual conversations
At the French conversation group I go to most weeks we usually stick to French most of the time, however when the leader of the group isn’t there or leaves early, as she did last week and the week before, we often switch to English and/or Welsh. Most members of the group speak Welsh, as well as English and French, … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » go down on
To go down on a woman is to start her off with nice, long, passionate kisses on the lips, and then down to her neck, and then down to her breasts where you have your pleasure with them, and then you kiss your way across her tummy, and finally, you have ultimate pleasure with orally pleasing her pussy. "I want … [Link]
languagehat.com » Altaica.
Monumenta altaica is a cornucopia of everything Altaic-related; the site language is Russian, but if you look down the books and articles page you’ll see plenty of titles in other languages, e.g.,G. Doerfer, Türkische und Mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen (3 vols.); V. Drimba, Syntaxe Comane; S. E. Martin, Dagur Mongolian: Grammar, Text, and Lexicon; and Nicholas Poppe, Introduction to Altaic … [Link]
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