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 » hashtalk
When hashtags are spoken out loud. Example of someone hashtalking: "They accepted my application! hashtag-boom. hashtag-slay!"
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languagehat.com » Tongue Twisters in Australian Languages.
A fun post at Endangered Languages and Cultures: A lively thread has been unwinding over on the RNLD email list recently, in response to a request for examples of Australian tongue twisters. So many great phrases have come out of the woodwork that it behooves us to set them down here for posterity. Oddly, listing them in alphabetical order by … [Link]
Language Log » NYC rhoticity
"Can you spot wealthy New Yorkers by their ‘R” sounds?", Improbable Blog 6/19/2015: Is it possible to gauge how wealthy a New Yorker might be just by the way they pronounce their /r/ s? A new paper in the Journal of English Linguistics investigates whether variations of rhoticity [viz. the prevalence, or lack of, the /r/ sound in speech] in … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Post-vernacular languages
In an article I read today – Sustaining languages: An interview with Peter Austin, I came across an interesting idea – post-vernacular languages. A vernacular language is one you use in your everyday life, while a post-vernacular language is one you may not want to use in your daily life and as means of communication, but may learn to connect … [Link]
Wordorigins.org » Teaching Registers
The Economist’s Prospero blog has a post on the necessity of teaching different registers of speech. It uses Portuguese as an example, which I can’t speak to, not knowing the language, but the fundamental point the article makes is a good one: “Instead of a rigid right-wrong approach, with the written form always being taught as right, it would be … [Link]
Language Log » Punctuating Happiness
Today at the National Archives: "Punctuating Happiness": In advance of its traditional Fourth of July celebration, the National Archives, in partnership with the Institute for Advanced Study, will host a free conference on the Declaration of Independence titled “Punctuating Happiness" […] Inspired by the work of Danielle Allen, […] the conference will explore the National Archives’ work in preserving the … [Link]
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