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 » Future in Headlinese
Funny headline on a Yahoo news story: "Ford stops using Takata air bag inflators in future vehicles". To me that says that they used to use Takata air bags in future vehicles. How did that work? I first posted this on Facebook. Christine Behme (who's German) jokingly responded that maybe it was written by a German, since Germans often mistakenly … [Link]
Language Log » Taste the translation
Unfair, but funny: [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Starfish
When you get so high you are spread out and stuck to your bed like a starfish. "Haley got so high from that Lasagna bowl that she starfished in the car and didn't even make it to Taco Bell" "Gordon is always the first to Starfish"
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Language Log » A megaphone that can translate
An article by Nick Vivian in USA Today informs us: "Tokyo's airport is using this incredible megaphone to translate into three languages on the fly" (11/22/15). The person wielding the megaphone speaks into it in Japanese and the megaphone amplifies her messages in three languages, one after another: English, Korean, and Chinese. The article includes a video showing the megaphone … [Link]
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