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
languagehat.com » How the Corded Ware Culture Was Formed.
It’s been a couple of years since we got into the whole Indo-Europeans-and-Corded-Ware thing (e.g., here), so I thought I’d post Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe, by Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft, Karin M. Frei, Rune Iversen, Niels N. Johannsen, Guus Kroonen, Łukasz Pospieszny, T. Douglas Price, Simon Rasmussen, … [Link]
Language Log » Cheater’s stocks in Hong Kong and on the Mainland
Until three days ago when I read the following article in the South China Morning Post, I had never heard of this expression: “Opinion: All you need to know about cheater’s stocks: its lures, its victims and the key opinion leaders” (Shirley Yam, 5/10/17) She calls these stocks LAO QIAN GU in Chinese, but since I was not familiar with … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » klazomaniac
This would be a person WHO CAN ONLY SPEAK BY SHOUTING. That's all we're going to say ABOUT THAT! "Can you please stop being such a klazomaniac and calm down"
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languagehat.com » Namesake.
The latest issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine has, as usual, a lively letters section, and I thought the following exchange was worth posting: Admiral Grace Hopper’s name may replace John C. Calhoun’s on the college where I lived some 70 years ago, but she is not its “namesake.” Your headline has it backwards. The college itself is Admiral Hopper’s … [Link]
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