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 » Formality
The current SMBC: 
Mouseover title: "Finally, someone brave enough to tell the truth about our hypocrisy as to the topic of formality in language." The aftercomic: 
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Urban Word of the Day » trumpian
adj: describes an action or person that is motivated by arrogance, self-agrandizement, and without concern for fact, consequence or responsibilty. The CEO's trumpian policies have driven both his customer base and employees to their competition, SAD!The Teacher's punative actions towards the students she failed to adequatly teach are trumpian of a nature, PATHETIC!
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languagehat.com » Philocothonista.
Philocothonista, or, The drunkard, opened, dissected, and anatomized, by Thomas Heywood, includes a chapter with the following splendid list of approved synonyms: I come now to the penall Statutes enacted for diverse forfeitures, upon most grave and mature deliberation, No man must call a Good-fellow Drunkard, for that’s a name of reproach and indignity, as quite extermin’d out of their … [Link]
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