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 » Twice, or a hundred times, whatever …
"Figures reveal ethnic variations in prevalence of alcohol-related diseases", The Scotsman 5/9/2016 [emphasis added]: Irish people living in Scotland are more than twice as likely to end up in hospital or die from alcohol-related diseases as white Scottish people, research has found. The risk for women from a mixed ethnic background is almost 100 times that of white Scots, scientists … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » pundint
A common misspelling of the word "pundit," usually made by people with a fourth-grade education. A political pundint says radical /hatefull things to continue getting attention from the media.
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Language Log » Love heals all
Liwei Jiao sent me the following photograph of a framed picture that he bought: 
The Chinese is peculiar. It reads: ài zhìyù dōu 愛治愈都 Individually, the three words do mean "love heal / cure all", but it is neither grammatical nor idiomatic. You need a noun as object after the verb, but dōu 都 ("all") is an adverb and so … [Link]
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