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 » Ask LLOG: "(the) people who"
A retired English teacher sent in this question: Please look at a) and b): a) The American government spends billions of dollars a year defending the rights of people who cannot defend themselves because they are weak. b) For your examples of injustice, you mention only birth defects. Horrible as they are, they make up only a small percentage of … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » watersports
In BDSM terminology, refers to sensual or erotic play involving bodily fluids, typically urine, saliva, and less commonly, blood. Considered 'edge-play', because it is obviously somewhat unhygenic. Most of the Mistresses that he found online were willing to do watersports, but not scat.
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Language Log » Rinse thoroughly
As Mark Liberman has often reminded us, when taking things from newspapers you have to be very careful about what to attribute to the person who allegedly said something and what to attribute to the journalist who reported it or the subeditor who futzed with what the journalist turned in. So when we read this in the New York Times … [Link]
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