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

Talk Wordy to Me » My award-winning chili recipe

Wednesday 28 January 23:52:40 UTC 2015

Since people have been asking, here is my recipe for chili: TALKWORDY’S 10-ALARM GRADE-A CHILI 1 lb. ground beef/turkey/chicken 3 cans beans (whatever you like: black, pinto, kidney, etc.) 2 14.5-oz cans diced tomatoes 2 8-oz cans tomato sauce 2 medium onions, diced 4 gloves garlic, minced 2 tbsp. red New Mexican chile powder 2 tsp. cumin Optional toppings: sour … [Link]

languagehat.com » Some Links.

Wednesday 28 January 21:15:11 UTC 2015

Once again links are piling up faster than I can post ‘em, so here are several: 1) U-M helps open more than 25,000 early English books to public: The U-M Library, the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and ProQuest have made public more than 25,000 manually transcribed texts from 1473-1700 — the first 200 years of the printed book. The … [Link]

Talk Wordy to Me » Digging out

Wednesday 28 January 19:35:32 UTC 2015

This is what the plows piled up at the end of our driveway. snow2 Victory! snow5 [Link]

Omniglot blog » Zženštilý

Wednesday 28 January 11:58:26 UTC 2015

I came across the Czech word zženštilý yesterday among translations of soft and the pile up of consonants got me wondering whether it was a real word or a typo. I discovered that it is a real word and means: soft, epicene, girly-girly, namby-pamby, nance, effeminate, effeminize, emasculate, pansy, soft, softish, unmanly, womanish, womanlike, sissified [source]. Related words include: – … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » inappropriate selfie

Wednesday 28 January 8:00:00 UTC 2015

When someone or a group of people decide to take a selfie at the absolute wrong moment in time. Like at a funeral or during intercourse. Girl 1: OH MY GOD! Did you see that selfie of the two of them at that funeral!?! Girl 2: I know! I can't believe they took that! It's such an Inappropriate selfie! … [Link]

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