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
Wordorigins.org » love bug
I moved to Texas last August, and this spring I’ve been subject to two assaults. The first is by allergies, which I’ve experienced in more temperate climes, but which are especially bad in the Texas spring when everything is in bloom. The other is by swarms of Plecia nearctica, commonly known as the love bug. [Link]
Omniglot blog » Phrasemes
From a new article that I added to Omniglot today – How to Avoid Phraseme Goofs in Other Languages, I learnt a new word, phraseme. I hadn’t encountered before, so I thought I’d find out more about it. According to Wiktionary, a phraseme is: An utterance, consisting of multiple words or morphemes, at least one of whose components is selectionally … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » memewhore
Someone who seriously overdoes it with the memes, and they're not even trying to troll. They're just annoying. Fred: u mad? u mad? u mad? Sally: shut up. Fred: ahahaha so you are mad! Sally: ….. Fred: fake and gay Sally: you're such a memewhore. Fred: u mad?
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languagehat.com » The Curse of the Diaeresis.
As I said here, Mary Norris of the New Yorker “has consistently irritated me with her stubborn insistence on every bit of peevery that has encrusted the magazine over the years,” but I admit I enjoyed her (now five years old) squib on the magazine’s famous diaeresis (“those two dots, often mistaken for an umlaut”). I particularly liked the last … [Link]
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