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 » Please prevail in kind
Anne Henochowicz found this on the menu at Panda Gourmet, an incredible dìdào 地道 ("typical; authentic") Shaanxi restaurant in a Days Inn on the outskirts of DC: 
The translations of the entries on the menu (S15-S18) are not terrible (you can roughly figure out from the English what you'd be getting). What's striking about the quality of the translation overall … [Link]
Language Log » First Amendment in peril in Princeton?
Yesterday, Roger Lustig sent in a snapshot of the front page of the Princeton Packet, with the observation that Maybe free speech, even the political kind, is in greater danger than we thought! The online version of the headline is much longer, and not ambiguous in the same way: Philip Sean Curran, "PRINCETON: Police chief resists renewed calls to stop random … [Link]
Language Log » Pick a word, any word
To access an article in the Financial Times yesterday I found myself confronted with a short market-research survey about laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Answer three our four layers of click-the-box questions, and I could get free access to the article I wanted to look at. A reasonable bargain: clearly some company was prepared to pay the FT for access to … [Link]
World Wide Words: Updates » New online: Tomfoolery
Was there ever a real 'Tom Fool' who gave us 'tomfoolery'? [Link]
World Wide Words: Updates » New online: So help me Hannah
What's the origin of 'So help me Hannah'? [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » comfort cartoon
Synonymous to comfort food, comfort cartoon provides feelings of nostalgia and sentimentality towards the viewers. The type of animation tends to be stylized and visually appealing: over or under saturation of colours, "incorrect" motion etc. The storylines tend to be rich with lessons and underlying meanings (nutrients) or sometimes it's just for pure fun and joy (carbs).Popular examples would be: … [Link]
languagehat.com » KurdîLit.
A Literature Across Frontiers post announces: KurdîLit website is now online! The English version of the website provides a mission statement: KurdîLit is a website that aims to bring together and digitally archive basic information regarding actors (writers, translators, publishers, and periodic literary publications) operating in the field of Kurdish literature and publishing. The efforts to make this basic information … [Link]
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