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 » FOGO
Fear of going out, opposite of FOMO. A light hearted jovial expression used in situations where a person is non committal to the evenings activities. Steven has FOGO tonight, he is worried he'll be tired tomorrow.
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Language Log » The kitchen sink
Randy Alexander asks: How do you say this in Chinese? This seems to be another one of those things where there is no standard name for it. Almost everyone I ask has a different name for it, and they have to think for a moment when I ask then how to say it in Chinese. 
PRELIMINARY NOTE on basic terms … [Link]
languagehat.com » Words Writers Love.
Writers, by and large, love words, so it makes sense to ask them which words they’re particularly fond of, and the Guardian did so; it’s an even more interesting list than you might expect, and it leads off with the wonderful Hilary Mantel, who says, inter alia, “Only recently I learned nesh, which you would be after traipsing: fragile, a … [Link]
Language Log » "Horse of Cart"
Tom Mazanec has been seeing a series of strange ads all over the Shanghai subway. They're for a company that does one-on-one oral English practice over Skype, called 51talk.com. 
Tom observes: 1. They're making a pretty funny and complicated joke about the ways people study English. The "Horse of Cart" ad, in particular, is great: not only does the bad … [Link]
Language Log » Budapest restaurant
Blake Shedd sent in this photograph of a Japanese restaurant in Budapest called "Tokio": 
There are interior photos here. When I first looked at the name of the restaurant, both in Japanese and in English, there was something unsettling about the way it was presented. I felt a similar uneasiness over the presentation of the name of a Japanese restaurant … [Link]
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