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 » “As many people as not”
A reader from India, apparently not satisfied with the responses from WordReference and StackExchange, writes to express his problem with the phrase “They kill as many people as not”, found in an article by Anne Lamott (“Anne Lamott shares all that she knows: ‘Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared’“, Salon 4/10/2015). “As many people as __” is routine, … [Link]
languagehat.com » Language Is Like Flowing Water.
R. Devraj of the excellent blog Dick & Garlick has posted about an interesting bit of poetry: भाखा बहता नीर: language is like flowing water I’m not too sure where I came first across this line of Kabir’s, which describes his views on language in a pithy epigrammatic style, contrasting the dead Sanskrit of the ancient religious texts with bhakha … [Link]
Language Log » Death by french fries
The Daily Telegraph did not do much for its reputation, at least in my eyes, when it confused the defense with the prosecution after a celebrity sexual assault mistrial. Nor when it recently consulted me about whether there were grammar mistakes on a banknote, learned that there clearly were not, but went ahead and published the claim that there were … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Dadalicious
A "dad" or "father" that has managed to stay hot, hip, happenin' and relevent despite his children's claims that he has "no game". Check out Neill's dad… he is still so cool! He is dadalicious!
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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]
languagehat.com » The Wor(l)d of Ulysses.
Stan Carey at Sentence first has a great post about the mess that is the text of Joyce’s Ulysses: The length and complexity of Ulysses, and the difficulties of its publication, mean that many subtly different versions of the text exist. The first legal edition in the US, which became its standard edition for decades, was based on a pirated … [Link]
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