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 » Subsective adjectives and immigration
An important rallying cry and usage distinction made by allies of undocumented workers in the current cultural battle over immigration in the United States is Elie Wiesel's assertion above: "No human being is illegal." In the quote, Wiesel gives examples of the kinds of adjectives that he feels can denote properties of people (fat, skinny, beautiful, right, and wrong). On … [Link]
languagehat.com » Stephen Fry on the Joys of Swearing.
Everybody likes Stephen Fry, right? Well, I do (see this 2008 post), and thanks to Bathrobe I can now favor you with a brief (two and a half minutes) video clip of him on one of my favorite subjects: “It would be impossible to go through life without swearing and without enjoying swearing.” Enjoy! [Link]
Omniglot blog » Language quiz
Here’s a recording of a song in a mystery language. Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken? [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » dildocio
The talk, actions, or behavior of dildos This feat of dildocio is worthy of The Donaldo.Oh, the dildacity!
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Language Log » Chinese restaurant shorthand, part 3
Yixue Yang and I were on a mission to find out what the mysterious "O" in this entry from the previous installment in this series stands for: laan2 / lán 兰O — stands for gaai3laan2 / jièlán 芥兰O ("Chinese kale / broccoli / gai lan / kai lan order") Since that "O" occasioned so much discussion in the comments to … [Link]
Language Log » Not ending a headline with a preposition
"Dear Abby: Creepy boy follows around eighth-grade girl", Chicago Sun-Times 2/25/2017: DEAR ABBY: I’m an eighth-grader with a good life. I go to a good school, have good friends and a happy family. But at school, there is this boy who follows me around. I tell him to stop, but he keeps doing it. So upstream in the publications process … [Link]
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