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 » Limerick Poems and Civil Wars
This is a St. Patrick's Day guest post by Stephen Goranson. The five-line nonsense verses with AABBA rhymes existed long before they were called Limericks, it's generally agreed, but why they got that name lacks consensus. Let's start with an example: There was a young rustic named Mallory Who drew but a very small salary. He went to the show, … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » spank bank overdraft
When you masterbate so much your spank bank is now into overdraft Hey dude you making a withdrawal from the spank bank tonight ,bro I tug it so much I'm into spank bank overdraft
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Language Log » Trilingual signs in Sicily
"The Jewish Ghosts of Palermo", a post on The Dangerously Truthful Diary of a Sicilian Housewife, shows this photograph near the beginning: 
Caption: Possibly the most important Jewish street in Palermo, the Via dei Cartari was where all the Jewish scribes drew up any contract needed by the citizens of Palermo. There's an unobstructed view of the above sign in … [Link]
languagehat.com » The Oxford Comma and the Law.
I wasn’t going to post about this, but everybody and their brother (and my brother, for that matter) sent me links about it, so I guess I have to. Fortunately, Dave Wilton of Wordorigins.org has done an excellent post on the topic that begins: The Oxford comma was in the news recently when a federal court interpreted a Maine statute … [Link]
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