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 » Graffiti and Virgil.

Wednesday 17 June 19:17:22 UTC 2015

Emily Gowers, in her TLS review of Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii by Kristina Milnor, makes some very interesting points about the inseparability of low and high, just the kind of thing I love: Milnor reads the graffiti as carefully as any literary text, picking out clever manipulations of lines from Ovid and Virgil and the rhymes … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » shit or get off the pot

Wednesday 17 June 7:30:00 UTC 2015

Do what you ment to do and do it fast, or just drop it. Shit or get off the fucking pot man, you have to get one item not 5 fucking items. [Link]

languagehat.com » Mayan Spoken Here.

Wednesday 17 June 0:47:12 UTC 2015

An Indian Country Today piece by Dominique Godrèche makes me want to visit the Biennale in Venice: The 56th edition of the International Art Biennale of Venice, All the world’s futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor, presented, for the first time, “Voces Indigenas,” an exhibition entirely dedicated to the Native languages of Latin America. All the world’s futures runs through November … [Link]

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