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
Omniglot blog » Hi. Keefak? Ça va?
What language(s) do they speak in Beirut? According to an interesting programme and article I came across today, many people in Beirut speak Arabic, French and English, and frequently switch between them, often using two of them, or all three in the same sentence. While some might see this kind codeswitching as a sign that people haven’t learnt any of … [Link]
languagehat.com » Fifteen Years of wood s lot.
Five years ago I wrote: I am in awe of Mark Woods, who’s been putting out wood s lot for ten years now. It’s all I can do to crank out a post a day; you could say Mark puts out a post a day too, but each of his is equivalent to a dozen or two of mine. He … [Link]
Language Log » The G.K. Chesterton Prize for Ignoring Women
Yogi Berra may or may not have said that "You can observe a lot just by watching". He didn't add that you can learn a lot just by counting — but as a baseball person, he surely knew the power of simple statistics. You can learn a lot about G.K. Chesterton from the Wikipedia article about him, including his observation … [Link]
Language Log » Why the sudden need?
And what sort of factory? That's what Stephen B. wondered when he read the Guardian headline, "German factory orders slide unexpectedly". 
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Urban Word of the Day » Trend Bomber
When someone tries to become apart of a trend that they do not belong in. Posing to apart of a cultural trend that they have no business being apart of. A 90 year old woman who shops at forever 21 is a trend bomber.
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Language Log » Mauritian Creole
Brian Jongseong Park was recently in Berlin and got to see an art show featuring works from Berlin-based Mauritian artist Djuneid Dulloo, who is a friend of Brian's from school. One work that caught Brian's eye was "Ras Lavi", which is covered in examples of Mauritian Creole: window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({ xfbml : true, version : 'v2.4' }); }; … [Link]
languagehat.com » Unicode Suggestions Requested.
I just got the following e-mail: We’re drafting a proposal to add as many remaining unsupported phonetic and orthographic symbols to Unicode as we can justify. I thought you might have come across things you’d like to have encoded. You seem like the kind of person who might have stashed away notes on things like that. We’re not interested in … [Link]
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