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 » Gibberish Tibetan
Sign on an inn in Shangri-La, Yunnan, China: 
The Chinese, which is primary, says: Mèng lǚ Xiāngbālā kèzhàn 夢旅香巴拉客栈 ("Shambhala dream journey inn") The English is a more or less passable translation of the Chinese, but the Tibetan is a terrible jumble that means nothing, at least nothing that is readily discernible: sang babe phyi rting bang ming bku be … [Link]
Language Log » Nevada: "odd" or "add"?
“Trump Tells Nevadans How to Pronounce 'Nevada' … Incorrectly", ABCNews 10/5/2016: Donald Trump raised some eyebrows in the Silver State Wednesday night when he told Nevadans how to pronounce their state's name — differently than they do. "Heroin overdoses are surging and meth overdoses in Nevada, Nuh-VAH-da," he told the crowd in Reno. "And you know what I said? I said … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Dictionaried
The act of looking up the definition of a word. I know what that word means, I dictionaried it earlier.
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languagehat.com » Tribalingual.
Cambridge News reports on a worthy initiative: A Cambridge start-up is on a mission to save some of the world’s most endangered languages from extinction. Tribalingual is a language learning platform backed by the Cambridge Social Ventures programme in the Centre for Social Innovation at the Cambridge Judge Business School. It focuses solely on teaching rare and endangered languages. It … [Link]
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