Language Stuff

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 » Morepork.

Tuesday 18 July 23:03:52 UTC 2017

Another quote from Weinberger’s The Ghosts of Birds : The koukou, the Morepork owl, hoots koukou. It lives by night, it belongs to the Underworld, its frightening eyes a sign of evil. A thin film covers its unblinking eyes, a thin film made from the fingernails of corpses. I was, of course, intrigued by “Morepork,” so I looked it up; it’s … [Link]