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.
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Language Log » Canversers and draws
A LL reader sent in this picture of a "no hawkers or canversers" sign on a gate in a retirement community in Sawbridgeworth, England: 
They observed that there are many other examples of orthographic or morphological revision due to r-lessness, such as this example from Roland Oliphant, "Crimea faces months without power rather than be defined as part of Ukraine", … [Link]
languagehat.com » Ancient Indo-European Folktales?
Trond Engen sent me links to “Ancient Roots of Indo-European Folktales,” by Sara Graça da Silva and Jamshid J. Tehrani (“In this study, we introduce new methods for tackling these problems by applying comparative phylogenetic methods and autologistic modelling to analyse the relationships between folktales, population histories and geographical distances in Indo-European-speaking societies”), and the (inevitably breathless) BBC News story … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » craptrap
1. Purposely stinking up the toilet before your roommate or significant other needs to use the bathroom. 2. Walking into the bathroom after forgetting you took a stinky dump just minutes earlier. I was running late when rushed back into the bathroom to brush my teeth. I quickly realized my horrible mistake. I walked in on my own smelly craptrap. … [Link]
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