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 » Mapping Meat.
Frank Jacobs has a Big Think post called The Many Ways to Map Your Meat; most of it is taken from a 2013 post by Daniel Brownstein called How Do You Map Your Meat?, and if you’re interested in the subject you should definitely visit that one as well, but I’m linking first to Jacobs because he has the paragraph: … [Link]
Wordorigins.org » Web of Language
Linguist Dennis Baron’s blog about language in the news. [Link]
Wordorigins.org » Strong Language
A blog about swearing with contributions by a number of language experts. [Link]
Wordorigins.org » Sesquiotica
A blog about language by writer James Harbeck. [Link]
Wordorigins.org » Sentence First
An Irishman’s blog about language by writer Stan Carey. [Link]
Wordorigins.org » Lingua Franca
The Chronicle of Higher of Education’s blog about language and writing. [Link]
Wordorigins.org » Lexicon Valley
Slate’s blog about language. Slate’s podcast about language. [Link]
Wordorigins.org » Harmless Drudgery
A blog by Kory Stamper, a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster. [Link]
Wordorigins.org » Wrong.
Journalists love to write articles on language. Not only, since they make their livings with words, do they have a professional interest in the topic, but language is a popular topic. People, at least those who read newspapers, love to read about it. The problem is that journalists often get it completely wrong. A case in point is an article … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Rowing your boat
The French equivalent of to go for a row (in a boat), is faire un tour en barque or faire de la barque, and to row (a boat) is ramer, which also means to stake, although if you’re rowing as a sport then it’s faire de l’aviron. A barque is a small boat or rowing boat, a barque de pêche … [Link]
Language Log » Shifty merchants with 251 secret words for trade
Lila Gleitman points out to me that in one of the slowly increasing number of articles passing round the pseudoscientific story about Yiddish originating in four villages in Turkey you can see that hallmark of non-serious language research, the X-people-have-Y-words-for-Z trope: Putting together evidence from linguistic, history, and genetics, we concluded that the ancient Ashkenazic Jews were merchants who developed … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » turkey tap
When someone (usually male) taps another male on the nutsack firmly enough to elicit a short burst of testicular pain. "Man, I actually prefer getting snapped in the ass with a wet towel in the locker room now that the football team started turkey tapping me after P.E."
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