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 » Aravrit
Speaking of biscriptalism, Guy Almog called my attention to an interesting project called Aravrit (that is, Arabic + Hebrew [ivrit]). From the home page: Aravrit is a project of utopian nature. It presents a set of hybrid letters merging Hebrew and Arabic. This new writing system is composed of an Arabic letter on the upper half and a Hebrew letter … [Link]
Language Log » Inflection in Georgian and in English
Helen Sims-Williams has a new post on The Philological Society Blog: "Understanding the loss of inflection" (11/23/16) Helen takes what might superficially seem to be a dry and dreary topic and turns it into a lively, stimulating essay. Here's how it begins: The role of inflection is one of the most conspicuous ways that languages differ from each other. While … [Link]
Language Log » Chinese transcriptions of Donald Trump's surname
From the following post, we see that there are three main ways to transcribe Donald Trump's given name in Chinese and two main ways to transcribe his surname: "Transcription of "Barack Obama", "Hillary Clinton", and "Donald Trump" in the Sinosphere" (10/2/16) Here are the two prevailing transcriptions of "Trump" in Chinese characters: Tèlǎngpǔ 特朗普 (mainland China, Macau, Malaysia/Singapore) — 4,970,000 … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Trump University
A fake, unaccredited school using Donald Trump's name that offers classes in real estate, management, negotiation, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation. They are another example of a diploma mill, like Walden University or Trinity Southern University. Their main source of advertising is from spam, which also include offers for pet medications, diet pills, software, loans, photo contests, and mortgage applications. Hey, … [Link]
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