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
Language Log » "Top-of-the-fish"?
Kelly Dwyer, "Mark Cuban on his beloved Rockets, save James Harden: 'That’s not a very good team'", Yahoo Sports 4/17/2015: What better voice than Cuban’s, a man who inherited a perennial loser in 2000 before proceeding to act as the top-of-the-fish leader of a club that has made the playoffs in 14 out of 15 full seasons in the years … [Link]
Language Log » Wasn't haven't it, ain't haven't it
Renditions of "wasn't having it" as "wasn't haven't it" are pretty common. Some examples from web search: yeah, he tried but seen that I wasn't haven't it. Rookie wasn't haven't it. Richard wasn't haven't it today. Ms. Claudia wasn't haven't it lol you started it & Claudia finished it. And from twitter: He was trynna touch up on the girls … [Link]
languagehat.com » Trimurti.
The Trimūrti (sez Wikipedia) “is a concept in Hinduism ‘in which the cosmic functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction are personified by the forms of Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver and Shiva the destroyer or transformer.’” I couldn’t have told you that, but my years of Sanskrit study, though mercifully four decades in the past, left me with enough … [Link]
Language Log » Text by the bay
I'll be spending next Friday and Saturday in San Francisco at Text By The Bay, billed as "A new NLP conference bringing together researchers and practitioners, using computational linguistics and text mining to build new companies through understanding and meaning." With 46 interesting-looking talks and a couple of panels, this seems like an excellent way to get a sense of … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Barithmetic
The math a younger girl does when she meets an older guy in a bar, where she finds how old she was when you were her age. I'm too old to meet women in bars anymore, I don't need there barithmetic, making me feel older than I am!
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languagehat.com » Computer Finds Lost Shakespeare Play.
Or so they say. I confess that while I accept in theory the idea of computer analysis of word use to determine, or at least provide evidence for, authorship, it makes me uneasy. At any rate, here‘s what Helen Anders writes in The Daily Beast: Nearly 300 years ago, an editor named Lewis Theobald published a drama called Double Falsehood … [Link]
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