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
Urban Word of the Day » bromosexual
A unique and powerfull relationship amongst bros that words cannot define. "Hey are those guys gay." "Nah man, they're just bromosexuals.""I love you man. I don't know whats going on, I think I might be going bromo for you.."
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Language Log » Dialectal interference in Shanghai
Here's a photo of a warehouse on Chongming Island, at the northern edge of Shanghai, which deals in various agricultural products, as listed on the two signs: 
(Source) At the top of the large blue sign above the door, it reads: běn cǐ jīngyíng 本此经营 ("this here deals in"), where cǐ 此 ("here") is an erroneous character At the top … [Link]
Language Log » Open Access Handbooks in Linguistics!
A couple of weeks ago, I wrung my hands on Facebook over the proliferation of commercial publishers' Handbooks of Linguistics. These are usually priced out of individuals' budgets, being sold mostly to university libraries, and the thousands of hours of work poured into them by dedicated linguists are often lost behind a paywall, inaccessible to many of the people who … [Link]
languagehat.com » Another Dumb Book.
It’s been a while since reading about a new book on language made the bile rise within me; I’ve been very pleased with the increasing number and quality of good books on the topic. But Megan Garber’s piece in the Atlantic on Ross and Kathryn Petras’s You’re Saying it Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words … [Link]
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