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 » Gout.
A lovely epigram by Thomas Erskine: The French have taste in all they do, Which we are quite without; For Nature, which to them gave goût, To us gave only gout. [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » trash dove
One of the shittest and most annoying things on the internet. First seen in january, 2016. In february, 2017, it went viral, and began to invade all over the internet. You can see at least one comment with this bird in facebook pages. There are numerous pages and groups created about this. Also there are millions of protesters around the … [Link]
languagehat.com » The Seipel Line.
In a recent comment, Aidan Kehoe linked to Coby Lubliner’s 2004 essay “Europe East and West: the Seipel Line,” which I found so interesting I thought I’d make a post of it. There’s no point trying to summarize it; what makes it so interesting is the accumulation of details, so I’ll quote a couple of paragraphs to give you the … [Link]
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