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 » English orthography is fake news
Today's Non Sequitur: 
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Omniglot blog » Up North
After being discharged from St Mary’s Hospital yesterday, I took a taxi to Euston, with a Somali driver. I managed to get myself to the ticket hall and bought a ticket. Then asked for assistance to get to the train – I can’t put any weight on my broken ankle at the moment so have to hop everywhere with the … [Link]
Language Log » Russia is a surface but other countries are spaces?
In Finnish, that is. Garrett Wollman ("Some linguistic observations from my trip to Finland", Occasionally Coherent 4/14/2017) notes that Finnish morphology differentiates between "surface" and "interior" relationships of position and motion: toward at away surface allative -lle “onto” adessive -lla/-llä “on” or “at” ablative -lta/-ltä “off” or “away” interior illative -Vn/-hVn (for stems ending in V) “into” or “toward” inessive … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » sugar orgasm
when you have an extreme sugar high. way beyond a sugar buzz, and in the morning you usually wake up with a sugar hangover and can't look at another sugary food, (candy) for three days without wanting to throw up. bob: last night you had so much sugar, you were acting high. lilly: i was having a sugar orgasm … [Link]
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