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 » The evolutionary psychology of editing

Monday 30 March 18:32:09 UTC 2015

Today's Non Sequitur: [Link]

Wordorigins.org » An End for DARE?

Monday 30 March 18:24:00 UTC 2015

It seems that the Dictionary of American Regional English is once again on the chopping block. The project narrowly escaped that fate two years ago, but is once again on the brink of ending. That in a country as wealthy as the United States, that a scholarly project so important, and so relatively inexpensive, as DARE could go without funding … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » gravediggin

Monday 30 March 7:30:00 UTC 2015

trying to have sex with an older person Brian, you going gravediggin tonight? [Link]

Language Log » Wordy Bengal

Monday 30 March 2:25:39 UTC 2015

Headline in bdnews24.com: "Bangladesh adds 700,000 words to Google Translate in a day" (3/28/15) An official announcement from Google Inc is yet to be made but State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak broke the news in his Facebook post on Friday. He congratulated all involved in the post. “We’ve done it! Our target was 400,000. Setting a record by … [Link]

languagehat.com » Some Links.

Monday 30 March 0:26:27 UTC 2015

1) What the English of Shakespeare, Beowulf, and King Arthur actually sounded like. James Harbeck’s conceit is “Let’s hop into a time machine and go back to the England of yore!” He makes stops at Shakespeare (a sonnet read by Ben Crystal), Chaucer (read by Diane Jones), a century earlier (a Middle English song performed by the Anonymous 4), and … [Link]

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