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 » Tracing lexical trends in Google searches
Google has released a fun data visualization tool that shows changes in search interest over time for a variety of trending words, particularly new slang terms. In "The Year in Language 2016," you can see how frequently people searched for the definitions of words, in queries such as "selfie definition" or "define selfie." By this metric, the top 10 words … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Trump Treatment
When you go to a foreign country, order a presidential suite, and get videotaped watching two prostitutes pee on each other. Guy 1: Dude when I went to Brazil, I totally got the Trump treatment! Guy 2: Classic Trump treatment!
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languagehat.com » Ottoman Turkish.
Two links on an interesting topic: 1) When Turkish was written in the Greek, Armenian and even Syrian script, by Michael Erdman: The two largest allographic communities were the Armenians and the Greeks. Armeno-Turkish – a rendering of Ottoman Turkish in Armenian letters – gave rise to a vibrant publishing industry and cultural community. The orthography was largely phonetic and … [Link]
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