John Gordon Ross

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

languagehat.com » Confidence Man.

Sunday 27 July 18:34:29 UTC 2014

I’m reading July 1914: Countdown to War , by Sean McMeekin, having enjoyed his The Russian Origins of the First World War (see this post) and having read in R.J.W. Evans NYRB review that it was “almost impossible to put down” (and of course being prompted by the centenary aspect); I’m still on the Prologue, but I’ve already run into a … [Link]

Language Log » Dead and alive: metaphors for (dis)obeying the law

Sunday 27 July 17:14:26 UTC 2014

Many Language Log readers are probably aware of the food scandal at OSI in Shanghai, the implications of which have spread throughout much of East Asia, to parts of Southeast Asia, and even beyond, wherever shipments of Chinese meat products have reached. In reporting this, CNBC made the following point: "The rules are dead, and people are alive, that's simple," … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » AG

Sunday 27 July 7:00:00 UTC 2014

All Good. I went to the doctor yestetday, and everything was AG. [Link]

Omniglot blog » Language quiz

Sunday 27 July 6:14:51 UTC 2014

Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken? Share [Link]

languagehat.com » The Sex Life of the Nineteenth Century.

Sunday 27 July 0:21:05 UTC 2014

John Emerson is, of course, a frequent LH commenter; he also walks the hard path of the independent scholar, hacking his way through untraveled wildernesses of culture and history, asking questions none have asked before him, like “Could Friedrich Nietzsche have married Jane Austen?” Back in 2007 I wrote enthusiastically about his book Substantific Marrow; now he’s come out with … [Link]

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