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 » International Mother Language Day
As you might know, today is International Mother Language Day. The theme this year is “Linguistic diversity and multilingualism: keystones of sustainability and peace”. To do my bit for multilinguism, I’m currently learning Swedish, Russian, Romanian and Slovak, and practising other languages, especially French and Welsh. So far today I’ve learnt a bit more Romanian and Russian, listened to some … [Link]
Language Log » Anime
Today's Dumbing of Age illustrates, in contemporary Indiana, a point that George Bernard Shaw made about England in 1916: "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him." 
Mouseover title: "super honestly, she just wants to punch everyone in the face" Shaw was talking about the effects of geographic and … [Link]
Urban Word of the Day » Beauty sus
The opposite of Beauty bias, where the attractiveness of a person makes you more suspicious about their true character, usually causing you to act more closed off or cold around that person than usual because of their beauty, thus the sus. Friend: “Do you have something against them? Is there some kind of beef going on that I don’t know … [Link]
languagehat.com » The Script of the Naxi.
Dr Duncan Poupard of the Chinese University of Hong Kong has a post at the Asian and African Studies blog of the British Library on “some of the most extraordinary, mysterious and visually interesting manuscripts we hold in the Chinese section of the Library”: The British Library holds a modest but important collection of religious texts from a lesser-known people: … [Link]
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