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 » All Trumped Up
Adam Wren, "'I'm Still All Trumped Up'", Politico Magazine 2/13/2017: On the first Saturday of Donald Trump’s presidency, as protesters and marchers stormed the nation’s capital and cities around the country, Dick and Jane Ames threw a party. […] “Oh, Trump—I’m still all Trumped up,” Jane, a retired insurance broker, told me, reveling in the memory of that night […]. … [Link]
Language Log » "Poop"
[This is a guest post by Nathan Hopson] Yes, the following image from the most recent Weekly Playboy (週刊プレイボーイ Shūkan Pureibōi; not a regional edition of Hugh Hefner's Playboy), is labeled "Poop": 
I'm not sure whether to be relieved or further dismayed by the fact that this appears to be a nickname ("nom de loo?") or other sort of descriptor … [Link]
Language Log » Gambling Disturb Terrible
A friend of Anne Henochowicz spotted this T-shirt in an Akihabara, Tokyo shop: 
The writing on the T-shirt says: Hei ヘイ！("Hey!") Shinzō シンゾー！！("Shinzoo" — Japan's prime minister's first name) Oretachi dake de umaku yarou ze 俺たちだけでうまくやろうぜ！！（"Let's handle the business by ourselves" — it's difficult for me to put this sentence into good English; it basically connotes something like "Let's not … [Link]
Language Log » More than cat videos
Girls With Slingshots for 9/18/2014: 
The best part is Danielle Corsetto's note about creating this strip: I wound up killing a lot of time on Twitter and Facebook asking people to share their grammatical pet peeves to use in today's strip. Jesus, that received more opinions and reactions than most of my cat videos do! Did you hear me? MORE … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » treasonish
The unpunished crime of betraying one's country through espionage and alternative facts. Will Donald Trump & Michael Flynn be rightfully tried for treason or was their collusion with Russia simply treasonish?
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languagehat.com » Triplex Confinium.
I’m in the middle of reading The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War 
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