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 » GAN4 ("Do it!")
From a long blog post on contemporary Chinese religious art and architecture: 
The post contains many other photographs of this monument, some with groups of people standing before it, so it is a real thing. We know where the monument is: Dalishucun ("Big Pear Tree Village"), Fengcheng City, Dandong Prefecture, Liaoning Province in China's Northeast (formerly Manchuria). It is located … [Link]
Omniglot blog » Sealladh Mara (Seascape)
My song course has now finished, and I’ll be heading home tomorrow. I’ve learnt a lot of interesting and beautiful Gaelic songs this week, and had a great time. There were some excellent concerts in the evenings, and an end-of-course cèilidh last night, at which each class performed their party piece (a song or two), then there was music, dancing … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » upperwear
Upperwear is the wardrobe you create when you work on line or on TV and are only 'seen' from the waist up. During video calls and meetings she wore professional looking Upperwear, such as blazers with pearls, while at the same wearing jogging pants.
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languagehat.com » Palimpsests at Saint Catherine’s.
Richard Gray at the Atlantic writes about a perennially interesting topic: The library at Saint Catherine’s Monastery is the oldest continually operating library in the world. Among its thousands of ancient parchments are at least 160 palimpsests—manuscripts that bear faint scratches and flecks of ink beneath more recent writing. These illegible marks are the only clues to words that were … [Link]
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