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 » Kriging.
One of the pleasures of my editing work is that it occasionally introduces me to new words, and I’ve just run into one such: kriging. It’s a statistical term, equivalent to Gaussian process regression (whatever that is, and don’t bother trying to explain it to me because even if I understood it at the moment I wouldn’t retain it), and … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Badumpa-Trump
An enormous old white man booty, likened to that of Donald Trump’s giant ass. We have to purchase extra large adult diapers to fit grandpa’s badumpa-Trump.
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Language Log » Indispensable condiment
Valerie Hansen gave me the following package: 
I was pleased that I could read the cursive script without hesitation: shuàn bùlí 涮不离 Figuring out exactly what this expression means is another matter altogether. The last two characters are relatively easy: "[can]not separate / be apart (from)". The first character is harder; it basically means "rinse; swill", but — in a … [Link]
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