John Gordon Ross

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Language Stuff

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

Language Log » Kiss kiss / BER: Chinese photoshop victim

Tuesday 22 July 19:39:22 UTC 2014

David Moser sent this photo to me about five years ago and I'm only now getting around to unearthing it from the masses of files scattered over my desktop: As David exclaimed when I told him that I had found his old message, "Ha! Great! At any rate, nothing has changed in five years, it's still a timely problem." In … [Link]

languagehat.com » Regency.

Tuesday 22 July 14:49:16 UTC 2014

I’m once again reading Abulafia’s The Great Sea (see this post), and I’ve run across an unfamiliar use of a familiar word: “The Danes, Norwegians and Swedes, fat from the proceeds of their northern trade, made their appearance off the coasts of North Africa, in the Barbary ‘regencies’ (so called because their rulers, variously known as deys, beys and bashaws, … [Link]

Language Log » slip(per)

Tuesday 22 July 11:16:11 UTC 2014

Jonathan Dushoff sent in this photograph of a sign in the Lukang (Lùgǎng 鹿港) public library in Taiwan (apologies for the reflection off the surface): Jonathan says, "It's obvious how a computer would make that translation; not clear why a human (at the library!) didn't spot it." The translation software (or somebody) made this mistranslation ("Invites the slipper") because of … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » oprah dollars

Tuesday 22 July 7:00:00 UTC 2014

Basically another way of saying that you gettin PAPER. Omg ever since I got this job my purse has been heavy from all these oprah dollars! [Link]

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