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 » Cunctation for Titivating.
Mark Liberman has a funny post at the Log, quoting “FLM”: A colleague (who has requested anonymity) and I have developed a fondness for perfectly innocuous words which, to the linguistically unwashed masses, sound sexual. My colleague’s example sentence is Because her husband was intestate, she sought to dilate her fungible assets; despite cunctation for titivating, she managed to masticate … [Link]
Language Log » Digital scholarship and cultural ideology
Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette and David Golumbia, "Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities", Los Angeles Review of Books 5/1/2016: Advocates position Digital Humanities as a corrective to the “traditional” and outmoded approaches to literary study that supposedly plague English departments. Like much of the rhetoric surrounding Silicon Valley today, this discourse sees technological innovation as an … [Link]
Language Log » Innocuous words that sound sexual
FLM writes: A colleague (who has request anonymity) and I have developed a fondness for perfectly innocuous words which, to the linguistically unwashed masses, sound sexual. My colleague's example sentence is Because her husband was intestate, she sought to dilate her fungible assets; despite cunctation for titivating, she managed to masticate and lucubrate far into the night. A website of … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » bra thirty
The time during the day at which it is no longer physically possible to wear a bra. Can also be written as bra:thirty, bra 30 or bra:30. Bras are removed for the remainder of the day at bra thirty. I got home after a long day at work and what do you know? It's bra thirty! Sweatshirt and yoga pants … [Link]
languagehat.com » Is There a Good Way to Translate Chinese Poetry?
The answer is clearly “Yes and no,” but detailed discussions of translation are always interesting, and here‘s one by Xujun Eberlein (you can read an interview with her here). Now, I have to say she lost me in terms of trusting her ear for poetry with this: I’ve heard some other Chinese poets praising Ezra Pound’s errors in translating ancient … [Link]
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