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 » Writers and Anonymity.
A good LRB essay by John Lanchester: Most writers of fiction are interested in anonymity. If they aren’t tickled by the thought when they sit down to write their first books, they get to that point after the first couple have come out. Writing is solitary, private, inward, and involves something close to complete control; even when there are losses … [Link]
Language Log » Pinyin in the kitchen
[This is a guest post by David Moser] We're in the midst of moving to a new apartment. Yuck. So I'm packing boxes with our ayi, who is from Anhui province, and has been helping us with cooking and cleaning house for a few years now. I think she has at least a middle school education, but probably high school … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Language quiz
Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken? [Link]
Language Log » Bob Dylan's poetry and the Nobel Prize
A. E. STALLINGS says: "At the news that Bob Dylan had won the Nobel Prize in Literature, poets, at least judging from my Facebook feed, were either very much pro- or very much con- (often along generational lines), delighted or outraged…" I found I fell into neither camp. At first, I was pleased to hear the news, and judged the … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » T-Rex sex
T-Rex sex is a loud, passionate and savage encounter. The couple in the room above, had prolonged T-Rex sex, which broke the bed and brought security!
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Language Log » Pure Pinyin
A father speaks [This is a guest post by Alex Wang, following up his remarks in "Learning to read and write Chinese" (7/11/16).] The more I learn Chinese to teach my younger son Chinese reading and writing the more I realize for lack of better word how “ridiculous” it is for a “significant / modern” country to use such a … [Link]
languagehat.com » Tsvetaeva’s Aspro Stil Nuovo.
Reading my collected Tsvetaeva along with her biography hasn’t provided the immediate rewards Pasternak’s did; with him I was blown away from the beginning, but with her the early verse was well made, sometimes vigorous, but not thrilling. But that all changed with the end of the year 1915 and the collapse of her mad romance with the poet Sophia … [Link]
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