If you enjoy etymology and the peculiarities of North American slang, you may enjoy this post about the evolution of the word "dude":

Dude! by Allan Metcalf
http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2013/10/21/dude/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en


From the Brooklyn Sunday Eagle for April 22, 1883:

“What is the dude, papa?” she said, with sweet, ( Read more... )

Last week, the University of Cambridge announced the launch of an exciting new project, the Endangered Languages Database. It is an "open database of endangered languages...launched by researchers in the hope of creating a free, online portal that will give people access to the world’s disappearing spoken traditions". The website has been ( Read more... )

An announcement originally posted to an art librarians listerv:
TermDoc
New cultural heritage multilingual  dictionary on-line: English to Catalan, German, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian.

Termdoc is embarking on the development of a cultural heritage multilingual dictionary, English to Catalan,  Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish.( Read more... )