Mother Tongue Annoyances is a nice blog for those interested in linguistics and language (specifically, the English language). From the origin of the word honking as an adjectival intensifier to strange business names and construction signs with poor grammar, Mother Tongue Annoyances covers pretty much every kind of peculiarity there is in the regular usage of the English language by native speakers. It even touches on a few examples of one of my favorite linguistic phenomenon -- the eggcorn.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Saturday, October 06, 2007
The Mahablog
The Mahablog is an excellent left-wing political blog which declares itself to be the "Home blog of the American Resistance". It is written by Barbara O'Brien, who in addition to being a blogger is also a blogging advocate and the author of the book Blogging America: Political Discourse in a Digital Nation. If you consider yourself to be right-wing/ conservative/ fundamentalist/ part of the Moral "Majority"/ pro-war in Iraq, you won't like this blog. I encourage you to read it anyway.
Monday, October 01, 2007
paintalicious
The folks over at paintalicious have scoured the web and found some great art for their blog. And despite the name, it's not all paintings. It pretty much includes all visual arts, design and media -- paintings, illustrations, photography, sculptures, etc... some really beautiful stuff.
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