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 » Alexander and the Mosquito.
I’ve just started Turgenev’s novel Накануне (On the Eve) — I’ve reached the 1860s! — and in the first few pages, in the course of a conversation between the young friends Bersenev and Shubin, the latter, lying on his stomach and observing the goings-on in the grass, says: Меня больше всего поражает в муравьях, жуках и других господах насекомых их … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Magic Café
Tonight I will mainly be listening to the band Circe’s Diner at Blue Sky Café. I haven’t heard them before, but their reviews are good. Also playing tonight is the Ewan Macintyre band. When I saw the name, I naturally wondered how to pronounce circe, and where the word came from. According to Wikipedia, circe is pronounced (/ˈsɜːrsiː/ (sursee), and … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Trump-years
An inverse analogue to "dog-years," in which a dog is said to age seven years for every human year (which pre-Trump was the saddest of time warps known).Now, "Trump-years" defines the human experience of aging one full human year (with all the ignominies that accompany aging) for every one month that that man is in office. "My God, I've gone … [Link]
languagehat.com » Chinghiz Aitmatov and Kyrgyzstan.
I still haven’t read any Chinghiz Aitmatov, though I’ve been wanting to for ages (and I got a collection of his back in 2011), so I was intrigued to see Ted Trautman’s Paris Review piece on him from a few years ago (thanks, Trevor!). I hadn’t realized quite how central he was to the cultural life of his country: It’s … [Link]
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