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 » Modern English Grammar
Richard Hershberger, who usually writes about baseball, has a recent post at Ordinary Times about "Modern English Grammar": My post today is uncharacteristically devoid of baseball content. It is about grammar, one of my many unremunerative interests. Specifically it is about modern English grammar. I don’t mean by this (except incidentally) the grammar of modern English. Rather, I mean modern … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Hooley fuddle
This weekend I am in Dún Laoghaire for the Ukulele Hooley, Ireland’s international ukulele festival. On the way here yesterday I met some ukulele players from Yorkshire and we had a bit of a jam on the boat, and another one last night with other people who are here for the Hooley. While talking with the Yorkshire lot, the word … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Phone Groping
That moment when you lose your phone and you immediately freak and start groping your self to find it. Male: Hey can you call someone for me? Female; Sure. *looks for phone* Crap! Where's my phone?! *starts to grope self* Male: Did you start Phone Groping your self? Female: Yes. Male: That's hot.
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languagehat.com » How Not to Use Ngrams.
A good piece by Ted Underwood from his blog The Stone and the Shell (“Using large digital libraries to advance literary history”), How not to do things with words: In recent weeks, journals published two papers purporting to draw broad cultural inferences from Google’s ngram corpus. […] I’m writing this post because systems of academic review and communication are failing … [Link]
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