Friday, October 19, 2007

translation blogs from outside the Commonwealth/US

Transblawg: English/German
Vivendo e Traduzindo: mostly in Portuguese

Friday, September 7, 2007

the rest of the English-speaking world

English, Jack: ESL-orient(at)ed, from Canada
matjin-nehen: by frequent SbaCL commentator, Jangari; mostly focussed on Australian aboriginal/language issues

Please contact me if any of these links doesn't work!

UK-based language links

Brave New Words: by an American translator in Wales
Confederacy of a Dunce: another American linguist in the UK, sometimes blogging about language
DC Blog: David Crystal's blog
The Engine Room: daily reflections from magazine (BrE) subeditors/(AmE) copy editors
IT is English: English from an IT perspective
John Wells' Phonetics Blog: does what it says on the label
Linguism: by a former BBC pronunciation advisor
LLAS News Blog: links to language-related stories from the UK press
London Language: from Middlesex University
Omniglot: writing about all sorts of languages
Peter Matthew Reed's Linguistic Weblog: a former student made good!
The virtual linguist: topical language discussions, by the author of several language books
Welford Writes: taking a prescriptivist stance
World-Wide Words: Michael Quinion's word watch

Please contact me if any of these links doesn't work!

US-based language links

Ceely's Modern Usage: a far more prescriptivist blog than mine
Dictionary Evangelist: Erin McKean's lexicographical blog
Double-tongued Word Wrester: Grant Barrett's word watch
Language Hat: since 2002..about all sorts of languages
Language Log: the Big Fish in the language blogging pond
The Lexicographer's Rules: Grant Barrett's other production
Lexicography (at OUP)
The Linguistics Zone: gives basic overviews of linguistics topics
Logofiles: assorted observations from Berkeley
Mr Verb: linguistic variety from the Upper Midwest
The Web of Language: commentary on language news by Dennis Baron
Webster's Daily: found poems from Noah Webster's first dictionary
Wishydig: Michael Covarrubias, Purdue
The Word: Jan Freeman's Boston Globe column
Word Origins: Dave Wilton's site about etymology--also has a discussion forum
Word Routes: Ben Zimmer's Visual Thesaurus-related blog
Word Wise: Dan Santow's 'Writing tips for public relations professionals'

Please contact me if any of these links doesn't work!