Language blogs

Language Log has a roundup of posts from blogging linguists.

Following the links, I learnt that the Chinese word for 'crisis' is not a compound of the words for 'danger' and 'opportunity', 3,000 of the 6,000-7,000 currently used human languages are headed for extinction, John Betjeman and C. S. Lewis fell out over Coleridge's pants, and Google library ninjas have launched virulent attacks on European culture (or not, as the case may be).