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 » Rhetorical reviews
Negative reviews of Donald Trump's rhetorical style are all over the place. A small sample might start with Gary Schmidgall, "What would Shakespeare make of Trump?", The Chronicle Review 2/7/2016: The current campaign’s race to the bottom of the rhetorical barrel, of course, has been led by Donald Trump. Did you know "trumpery" was Shakespeare’s word for fancy garments or … [Link]
languagehat.com » Czechia.
An Adam Taylor story in the Washington Post, to be filed under “About time!”: Politicians in the Czech Republic are set to put decades of debate to an end this week by officially announcing a new name for the country: Czechia. In a meeting with reporters this week, Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said he supported the move, suggesting that foreigners … [Link]
Language Log » Language and identity
Rebecca Tan, "Accent Adaptation (On sincerity, spontaneity, and the distance between Singlish and English", The Pennsylvania Gazette 2/18/2016: The most difficult thing about speaking in a foreign country isn’t adopting a new currency of speech, but using it as though it’s your own—not just memorizing your lines, but taking center stage and looking your audience in the eye. It is … [Link]
Language Log » Sentence meaning and speaker meaning
Today's Zits: 
The protean nature of dude interpretation has become a comics cliché — for a half dozen earlier examples, see "Dude", 12/8/2004 "Dude, no way", 12/9/2004 "Duding out", 12/10/2004 "More dudism", 10/26/2008 "Dude unbound", 10/9/2010 "'Dude.'", 11/12/2010 "More 'dude' lexicography", 12/20/2011 "Linguistic comics", 2/13/2013 Zits is also a reliable replicator of gender stereotypes, e.g. here, here, here. [Link]
Language Log » "Wasn't most certainly not resorting"?
Amanda Marcotte, "Just like a Bernie Bro, Sanders bullies Clinton: Brooklyn debate confirms Sanders campaign is sticking by sexist ambition witch stereotype", Salon 4/15/2016 (emphasis added): Sanders made it clear that he wasn’t most certainly not resorting to inarguably sexist attacks on Clinton’s intelligence. “Does Secretary Clinton have the experience and intelligence to be president? Of course she does,” Sanders … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Intense Fuckery
When you are tired/bored and sober, and fuck around too much and end up doing something you will regret yo that was some Intense Fuckery when you licked your nipple the other day and sent it to us
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