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.
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Language Log » More Sinological suffering
[This is a guest post by Brendan O'Kane. See "Sinological suffering", 3/31/17, for background.] I snapped this picture at the library today: 
The best thing about this is that it's annoying on multiple levels: One title, two volumes, two romanization systems. The Wade-Giles romanization is wrong, because it doesn't indicate aspiration. The Pinyin romanization is wrong too, because it uses … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Clean Coal
See Oxymoron My uncle has black lung after working at Clean Coal power plant.
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languagehat.com » Saving Jewish Iraqi.
Almost a decade ago I posted about “Jewish Arabic” and “Muslim Arabic” in Iraq; now Jacky Hugi (translated by Aviva Arad) reports on an effort to preserve the former: On Friday mornings in a class on the heritage of Babylonian Jewry, Oded Amit has taught a small group of Israelis to speak Jewish Iraqi, the language of his ancestors. Amit, … [Link]
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