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 » Wade-Giles Romanization and Chinese food
From Clarissa Wei, “The Struggles of Writing About Chinese Food as a Chinese Person“, Munchies (4/24/17) I hold myself to high standards when it comes to writing about Chinese food, yet I live in a world that can be quite insensitive in their approach to the cuisine. For example, many writers (especially on the East Coast) still use the Wades-Giles … [Link]
Language Log » More Deep Translation arcana
At Riddled, sometime LLOG commenter Smut Clyde has posted an impressive series of Goofle Translate experiments. You can read them at the links below — I’ve added locally-stored images, based on previous experience with bit rot as well as recent advice from James Angleton. “Mayor Snorkum will lay the cake” [Snorkum1] “Reveal to me the unknown tongue“: [UnknownTongue1, UnknownTongue2, UnknownTongue3, … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Language quiz
Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken? [Link]
Language Log » Because of course PRO BE|DO
Ordan Buckley asked: I'm curious if you have any thoughts on the slangy headline trend "X because of course X". Some examples: World's largest Lamborghini dealer is in Dubai, because of course it is Rob Gronkowski crashes Sean Spicer's briefing because of course he did Seattle just broke a 122-year-old record for rain — because of course it did Google … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » room hobbit
In college, one who stays in their room for countless hours on end without ever coming out until they grow long hair and toenails. John had to endure countless jibes and jeers after he finally decided to stop being a room hobbit and emerged from his room with a man mane that came out from his pants, extending down his … [Link]
languagehat.com » Chekhov–Saunders Humanity Kit.
The Chekhov–Saunders Humanity Kit (assembled by Maria Bustillos) is a remarkable thing, a website representing George Saunders’s MFA classes at Syracuse, and specifically the Chekhov “About Love” trilogy – “usually the best class of the year.” The linked page is the intro: I’ve wrestled with how to write about the resulting experience in a way that would most clearly transmit … [Link]
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