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.
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Language Log » Could this really be the end?
..of the nonsense about narcissism and pronoun counts? Probably not, but it should be. I'm talking about Angela L. Carey, Melanie S. Brucks, Albrecht CP Küfner, Nicholas S. Holtzman, Mitja D. Back, M. Brent Donnellan, James W. Pennebaker, and Matthias R. Mehl, "Narcissism and the use of personal pronouns revisited", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 3/30/2015: Among both laypersons … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » wombmates
A pair of twins that subsequently go on to live as roommates. We figured since we managed to get along so well in such a small space for 9 months, it would be easy to become wombmates again.
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languagehat.com » Khnyok.
Back in 2008, Philologos of the Forward wrote about one of the best words I’ve ever seen: Khnyok — it’s pronounced as one syllable, a feat best managed by pretending to clear your throat and blow your nose at the same time — is Yiddish. In my own enlightened Orthodox, English-speaking New York family (my father was born in Belarus, … [Link]
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