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 » Niche.
During Thanksgiving dinner (and I wish a happy Thanksgiving to all of my readers who celebrate it today), it somehow came up that three of the people at the table differentiated between the pronunciations of niche, using “nitch” for a recess in a wall and “neesh” for (in the words of Merriam-Webster) “a place, employment, status, or activity for which … [Link]
Language Log » Like thanks
In addition to the evergreen list of things to be thankful for — family, friends, health, worlds full of wonder — I'd like to make a plug for the internet, that connects us to all of them. Less directly than we might sometimes wish, but much more easily. And for anyone interested in speech, language, and communication, the internet and … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Polyglot Pathways
If you’re a polyglot who learns languages for fun, you might choose languages from a particular family or region, or languages that have contributed to your mother tongue. Or you might choose ones that are completely unrelated to one another in order to challenge yourself. These are possible pathways a polyglot might pursue. Another possible polyglot pathway that I came … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » sex sickness
The exhaustion and sick feeling you get when you have too much sex Guy 1: Jamie fucked seven times in one day and then threw up.Guy 2: Sounds like major sex sickness
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Language Log » Six God toilet water itching
From the annals of Improbable Research, Marc Abrahams posted "Patent application of the day: six God toilet water itching" (11/24/15) This is for Chinese patent application CN301200531 S, filed August 7, 2009 and published May 12, 2010. The inventors (bless their souls!) are Yú Fāngfāng 于方方 and Shī Yì 施翼. The original Chinese name of this wondrous product is: liùshén … [Link]
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