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 » Promoting Chinese characters in Korea
Most of what is said below applies mainly to South Korea, since Hangul-only writing has been even more deeply entrenched in North Korea than in the south. "Debate grows over teaching Chinese characters" (9/14/15) Education specialists are divided over whether to make Chinese characters part of the Korean language and literature textbook for elementary schoolchildren, with heated discussion continuing. While … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Language quiz
Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken? [Link]
Language Log » Participles, conveying urgency?
The first two and last two panels of today's Doonesbury: 
The idea that short phrases convey urgency is a well-established principle of writing advice, e.g. here and here. But it's not obvious to me that either in headlines or in broadcast news, the use of present participles rather than tensed verbs is generally the more urgent-seeming choice: The town reels, … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » cool girl
A girl who is not a girlfriend. Shares interests with, hangs with, and (optionally) sleeps with a man she is interested in. Inevitably, she becomes a 'cool girl' and becomes ineligible for girlfriend status. Is often beleived to be lesbian on first glance. Guy 1: Sam likes Halo? You serious? Damn, you're lucky to have a girlfriend like that. Guy … [Link]
languagehat.com » Trailing and Trolling.
I’m still reading Jane Eyre, and in Chapter 17 I was amused by a chance resemblance to a modern usage. Jane’s employer (and heartthrob) Mr. Rochester has arrived with a bunch of fancy house guests, and after dinner she is observing the darkly beautiful Miss Ingram, whom she fears Rochester may have a fancy for: She entered into a discourse … [Link]
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