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 » Freudian misnegation of the year
Leonardo Boiko writes "It's still mid-February, but I feel like this is a strong contender nonetheless". The source: Joshua Rhett Miller, "Pastor says nothing weird was going on with bound naked man in car", New York Post 2/13/2018. The key phrase: “I won’t deny that he began to take his clothes off and propositioned me, but I will deny, on … [Link]
languagehat.com » Jedek.
Three readers have sent me three different links about the discovery of a new language, so I’d better post about it! I’ll lead with the most scholarly source, the Lund University website’s “Unknown language discovered in Southeast Asia“: A previously unknown language has been found in the Malay Peninsula by linguists from Lund University in Sweden. The language has been … [Link]
Talk Wordy to Me » Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! [Link]
Language Log » Replicate vs. reproduce (or vice versa?)
Lorena Barba, "Terminologies for Reproducible Research", arXiv.org 2/9/2018: Reproducible research—by its many names—has come to be regarded as a key concern across disciplines and stakeholder groups. Funding agencies and journals, professional societies and even mass media are paying attention, often focusing on the so-called "crisis" of reproducibility. One big problem keeps coming up among those seeking to tackle the issue: … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » flexing on my ex
Showing your ex that you're better off without them We broke up last week but i aoready got some new hoes. I'm flexing on my ex.
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