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
Omniglot blog » Sounds good to me
Have you ever learnt a language just because you like the way it sounds? This is one of the reasons for learning a language discussed by John McWhorter is this TED talk: He talks about the joys of getting your tongue round the sounds of other languages, and mentions Khmer, with its large inventory of vowels. Which languages sound good … [Link]
languagehat.com » Smith’s Loseff.
Gerald (G. S.) Smith, now that he’s retired as Professor of Russian at Oxford, is devoting himself to continuing his project of translating the late Lev Loseff (Лев Лосев; I quoted one of his poems here and wrote about his biography of Joseph Brodsky here and here). He’s putting them up at the Lev Loseff blog, each translation followed by … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Old slippers
The genitals of a past significant other that after consideration and comparison are the ones you love the most "My girpelfriend said she missed my old slippers"
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