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

languagehat.com » The Afghan Geniza.

Sunday 10 January 22:01:11 UTC 2016

Samuel Thrope reports for Aeon on a tantalizing find from Afghanistan, “a trove of Jewish documents nearly a millennium old … now known as the Afghan Geniza”: Like its namesake the Cairo Geniza – the trove of discarded books and papers kept in the ‘genizah’ (Hebrew for storeroom) of the Ben Ezra synagogue in Cairo – the manuscripts from Afghanistan … [Link]

Omniglot blog » Language quiz

Sunday 10 January 11:01:05 UTC 2016

Language quiz image 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 » friendship cuddle

Sunday 10 January 8:00:00 UTC 2016

The akward cuddle between two friends who are not trying to go to far Man she jus wanna friendship cuddle [Link]

Language Log » Spoken Sanskrit

Sunday 10 January 1:54:42 UTC 2016

From December 13-17, 2015, I participated in an international workshop at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) on the Edmond J. Safra campus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The title of the workshop was "A Lasting Vision: Dandin’s Mirror in the World of Asian Letters". Here's the workshop website. The workshop was about Sanskrit poetics, especially as detailed in … [Link]

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