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
languagehat.com » Lameter.
Reader, I finished it. Jane Eyre, that is; after reading a chapter or two a day for weeks, I gobbled up the last sixty or seventy pages today, and am still not sure how to think about it. There is a fair amount of Gothic nonsense, and an almost intolerable quantity of Christian sanctimony (I am astonished to learn from … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Netflix and Chill for One
A euphemism for masturbation. Typically used by a single man or woman who has no sexual partners, save for Netflix. Katie: "Netflix and chill for one tonight I think" Chris: "Make sure you take off those fake nails, don't want to snag anything"
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Language Log » GBIAFMO AHU ROOM
Jim Breen snapped this photograph in the departure lounge at Guangzhou airport: 
The next to the last line reads: kòngtiáo jīfáng 空调机房 ("air-conditioning machine room") The first two words of the English on the sign seem completely impenetrable, but it did not take me long to locate the mysterious "AHU" in this online Chinese-English dictionary. The dictionary doesn't tell us … [Link]
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