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 » Pekingese vs. Putonghua

Sunday 15 March 12:01:37 UTC 2015

John Rohsenow sent me a WeChat (a Chinese text and messaging service) post that compares Putonghua (Modern Standard Mandarin [MSM]) sentences with their equivalents in Pekingese. The differences are stark, amounting to a translation from one language to another. The post offers a generous sampling of two dozen pairs of sentences. Here I'll provide the standard Language Log treatment of … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » big dataed

Sunday 15 March 7:30:00 UTC 2015

Being the target of big data. Doing a Google search for something and then being sent targeted ads for that thing for a month. She got big dataed, she went to target and got a coupon for a pregnancy test. They knew she was pregnant before she did. [Link]

Omniglot blog » Language quiz

Sunday 15 March 7:11:22 UTC 2015

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

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