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 » Political sound and silence II
In “Political Sound and Silence“, 2/8/2016, I compared the joint distribution of speech segment durations and (immediately following) silence segment durations in the Weekly Addresses of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama: 
Today I thought I’d add a similar graph for President Donald Trump’s Weekly Addresses so far in 2017: 
And a table of some other relevant values, including … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Chawed on
When you really go to town on something your eating He really chawed on that steak bone
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