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 » Rodent spigot
This one almost drove me nuts. Marc Sarrel sent me the following message: My wife and I have have found a strange translation from Chinese to English, and would be interested if you could help explain. We recently bought a nebulizer, from Amazon in the US, for my wife’s asthma. It came with the following set of instructions. Once of … [Link]
languagehat.com » The Three-Volume Novel and How It Ended.
This wonderful essay by Richard Menke explains a great many things about Victorian England and its literature of which I had no conception; I had, of course, heard of the three-volume novel, but I had no idea how it tied into the circulating library system, or of the fact that books were priced so that most individuals couldn’t afford them … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » eyebrow pubes
on your eyebrow, the long curly hairs that protrude beyond the flat straight hairs "Hey, checkout her savage brow bush! She has eyebrow pubes!" "Jeez better let her know before someone calls her a funt-cace"
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