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 » Historic Names of Vilnius Streets.
Or, as the webpage itself has it, ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЕ НАЗВАНИЯ ВИЛЬНЮССКИХ УЛИЦ / Vilniaus gatvių pavadinimai / Nazwy ulic Wilno. As Anatoly sometimes says (though he says it in Russian), this post will hardly be of interest to anyone, but when the link was sent to me (thanks, Paul!) I felt such a rush of nostalgic pleasure I had to make … [Link]
Language Log » Transcendent Tonality
Since both consist of carefully managed and skillfully manipulated sound, music and language blend into each other. This is most evident in song, of course, where language and tonality exist simultaneously. But sometimes the human voice is treated as an instrument, and language recedes into the background. On the other hand, something else human that is more ostensibly musical, namely … [Link]
Language Log » A new source of jokes
Greg Corrado, "Computer, respond to this email", Google Research Blog 11/3/2015: I get a lot of email, and I often peek at it on the go with my phone. But replying to email on mobile is a real pain, even for short replies. What if there were a system that could automatically determine if an email was answerable with a … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Ghost Cheeks
Where you sit on a toilet seat and can still feel the warmth where the previous occupant was sitting. I felt some ghost cheeks on the toilet last night…
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Language Log » Csikszentmihalyi
Two days ago, we contemplated the wonders of the short Polish-American surname Dzwil. Today we turn to a much longer, but equally wondrous, Hungarian-American surname, the one in the title of this post. For some seemingly impenetrable Hungarian surnames, it helps an English speaker to have mnemonic devices to produce a passable pronunciation. An example is the surname of the … [Link]
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