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

languagehat.com » Prescind.

Thursday 4 June 18:53:44 UTC 2015

I found the section on Visigothic Spain in Wickham’s The Inheritance of Rome a slog (for some reason, names like Chindasuinth, Recceswinth, and Wamba are hard for me to take seriously, and reading about their endless squabbles makes my eyelids droop — incidentally, you can get lists of all the Germanic rulers of Western Europe in this period, along with … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » Facebook Machine

Thursday 4 June 7:54:17 UTC 2015

A computer primarily designed to browse sites like Facebook instead of doing proper work on. The new Macbook is a $1000 Facebook Machine. [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » Necrophobia

Thursday 4 June 7:30:00 UTC 2015

Of which one has an abnormal fear of dying; A persistent fear of dying or the process of dying. "Man, you have necrophobia if you cant stay home alone." [Link]

languagehat.com » Dostoevsky’s White Nights.

Thursday 4 June 1:20:17 UTC 2015

I finally finished Veltman’s Salomea (which was probably longer than it needed to be but was still great fun), read a few of the early Turgenev stories that became Zapiski okhotnika (A Sportsman’s Sketches, also translated as Sketches from a Hunter’s Album, The Hunting Sketches, and Russian Life in the Interior; or, The Experiences of a Sportsman), and returned to … [Link]

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