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 » White Elephant.
Ross Bullen’s essay “Race and the White Elephant War of 1884” is, as you can tell by the title, not primarily about language, but this passage is linguistically interesting enough to excerpt: Further complicating the relationship between human whiteness and white elephants is the fact that the English term “white elephant” is an inadequate and misleading translation of the Thai … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » trickle up economics
The financial principle of bleeding the poor and middle class of any expendable income (and some necessary income) so they cannot buy anything, thus impacting the government-supported mega-corporations and lending institutions, requiring Republican idiots to give them more money to continue their financial destruction of the United States. Amen. A: Did you hear about AIG? Another quintessential example of trickle … [Link]
Language Log » Unknown language #10
ProZ.com is a membership-based website that targets freelance translators. They currently have posted a job for which they are seeking a qualified translator, but are uncertain of what language the source text is in. On first sight, the sample text (see below) looks vaguely Turkic to me. The person who posted the job notes: We are trying to figure out … [Link]
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