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 » These Fragments I Have Shored.
I have a few envelopes stuffed with the “pocket papers” I used to carry around to jot down phone numbers, book titles, and other bits of information I didn’t want to lose, and every once in a while, in a fit of nostalgia, I go through them. The one I have before me is a call slip from Yale University … [Link]
Language Log » Corporate PR + correspondents on location
From last summer's pilot episode of What The Fox, put together by Zach Fox and a group of other Penn undergrads: Episode 2 came out last week — my favorite part, I think, is the correspondent enacted by Dale Stewart: [Link]
Language Log » The origins of graphic communication
In a 12:05 TED talk filmed in August, 2015, cave art researcher Genevieve von Petzinger asks: "Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe?" Von Petzinger, a paleoanthropologist associated with the University of Victoria (British Columbia), is concerned primarily with symbols in Ice Age European cave art dating to the Upper Paleolithic (40,000-10,000 BP), but she … [Link]
Wordorigins.org » Why I dislike Bryan Garner
I don’t dislike the man. I’ve never met him. I’m sure he’s a very nice guy, and given a chance, we’d probably get along just fine. But I don’t like Garner’s Modern American Usage, an Orwellian usage guide published by Oxford University Press. Why don’t I like it? It’s not simply because it’s “prescriptivist.” I have no problem with giving … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Luckfully
Adj/verb: thankfully lucky Luckfully that cop pulled someone else over
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