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 » Translate These Books!
Will Firth, a translator from Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian, has posted “10 Books by Women We’d Like to See Translated: Balkan Edition.” I love this sort of thing, and the books sound interesting; two that particularly struck my fancy: CROATIA Hodler en Mostar (Hodler in Mostar), Spomenka Štimec (Edistudio, 2006) This historical novel is partly about the Swiss painter Ferdinand … [Link]
Language Log » The 2016 Blizzard Challenge
The Blizzard Challenge needs you! Every year since 2005, an ad hoc group of speech technology researchers has held a "Blizzard Challenge", under the aegis of the Speech Synthesis Special Interest Group (SYNSIG) of the International Speech Communication Association. The general idea is simple: Competitors take a released speech database, build a synthetic voice from the data and synthesize a … [Link]
Language Log » Writing Sinitic languages with phonetic scripts
This morning I was awakened by a bird calling outside my window, "m*ll*n*y m*l*rk*y", or maybe it was some squirrel chattering (I was half asleep and couldn't be sure which it was). Since I was unable to distinguish the vowels clearly, I couldn't tell exactly what the call / chatter was, but the bird / squirrel kept repeating it over … [Link]
Language Log » Needless words
I know I've been a long-time critic of everything in The Elements of Style, not least William Strunk's platitude that you should omit needless words. "Needless" is not defined even vaguely; nobody really writes in a way that sticks to the absolute minimum word count; and if neophyte writers could tell what was needless they wouldn't have to be handed … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Lie-Fi
When your phone or tablet indicates that you are connected to a wireless network, however you are still unable to load webpages or use any internet services with your device Person 1: Can you get any wi-fi here?Person 2: No, it says I'm connected but it's really just lie-fi
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