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 » Spit(ting| and) images

Sunday 14 September 12:46:51 UTC 2014

Bob Moore was taken aback by "spit and image" in Frank Bruni's 9/9/2014 NYT Op-Ed, and wondered whether it was an eggcorn for "spitting image": I worry about the combustible tension between our abysmal regard for the Congress that we’ve got and a near certainty that the Congress we’re about to get will be its spit and image: familiar faces, … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » twoosh

Sunday 14 September 7:00:00 UTC 2014

A perfect, 140 character Tweet on Twitter. Nothing feels better than crafting a perfect twoosh. [Link]

Omniglot blog » Language quiz

Sunday 14 September 6:09:01 UTC 2014

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

languagehat.com » Metambesen.

Sunday 14 September 1:46:23 UTC 2014

Metambesen is one of those fine old Native American place names; as we read in the American Historical Register for 1896: About 1680 Colonel Peter Schuyler purchased from the Indians a tract of land lying over against Magdalen island, and in 1688 obtained therefor, from Governor Thomas Dongan, a patent, in which the boundaries are thus defined. “Situated, lying, and … [Link]

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