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 » On Being Translated Back to Myself.
Boris Fishman has a winning Author’s Note in the latest NY Times Book Review about his trip to Estonia, where he confronted a Russian translation of his novel A Replacement Life (which I will really have to read): The embassy had scheduled a reading in Russian, so it commissioned a translation from a local trinitarian. Soon, it arrived — a … [Link]
Language Log » The perils of pronunciation
Distinguishing between "four" and "ten" in rapid, slurred Modern Standard Mandarin (MSM) is not always easy: sì 四 vs. shí 十. Try saying sìshísì 四十四 ("forty-four") quickly and it starts to feel like the beginning of a tongue twister. Now, when speakers from the various topolects, even within the so-called Mandarin group, come together and tones, vowels, and consonants start … [Link]
Omniglot blog » A Wayzgoose Chase
What do you call a printer that doesn’t work? A wayzgoose [ˈweɪzɡuːs]. A wayzgoose‽ What’s that? According to the Oxford Living Dictionaries, a wayzgoose is “An annual summer dinner or outing held by a printing house for its employees.” The Oxford Dictionaries blog says that: the wayzgoose was originally an entertainment given by a master-printer to his workmen to mark … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Just Placing it out there
Similar to the phrase "just putting that out there", but it is usually said more as suggestion, particularly when the person saying it lacks confidence that his answer or solution is correct. Just placing it out there, but we should go bowling tonight.Just placing it out there, but I think Rachel likes you.
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