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 » Sino-Nipponica

Sunday 26 July 22:35:09 UTC 2015

Back in mid-December, 2013, I started assembling materials for a post about the differences between Chinese and Japanese writing. I think that someone (I forget who) sent me a couple of links that stimulated me to think about this topic, and then I added some things of my own. That was about as far as I got, though, so the … [Link]

Omniglot blog » Language quiz

Sunday 26 July 9:55:52 UTC 2015

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

Urban Word of the Day » sleep on life

Sunday 26 July 7:47:53 UTC 2015

Let life go by or pass on by "You haven't heard this song? Everybody know this song, bro you sleep on life." [Link]

languagehat.com » Two for the Bookshelf.

Sunday 26 July 0:26:14 UTC 2015

I’ve gotten a couple of review copies that I won’t have time to read for a while but that look so interesting and useful that I want to put the word out about them right away: 1) The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics , by Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin W. Lewis. The blurb says: Over the past decade, … [Link]

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