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

Language Log » Getting your book depublished

Thursday 12 February 15:11:28 UTC 2015

Two comments on the strange business of how we academics work for almost nothing doing our academic writing, and even do our own typesetting, and get our colleagues to do unpaid editing and quality reviewing of what we have written, so that publishers who have contributed almost no value added can then charge you readers huge sums of money for … [Link]

languagehat.com » Curia.

Thursday 12 February 14:34:45 UTC 2015

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’m reading Peter Brown’s Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD — superb, like everything he writes — and was struck by a word in the very first passage, about the “Harvester of Mactar,” who had his biography recorded in … [Link]

Language Log » Colorado cuisine inspiration

Thursday 12 February 12:01:08 UTC 2015

I'm in Paris for a few days, and walking a few hundred meters to dinner with friends last night I happened to pass a couple of indications of the influence of American culture on vernacular food in France. One was a small sandwich shop offering "hod dogs", and another was this illuminated sign on the side of a bus-stop shelter: … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » chromeblast

Thursday 12 February 8:30:00 UTC 2015

When you're watching a serious TV show and some smart ass in the household casts a lame YouTube video to the ChromeCast. Hey Tom can you stop chromeblasting Rick Astley videos. We're trying to watch 60 Minutes [Link]

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