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 » College Girl Fiction.

Monday 8 February 22:33:21 UTC 2016

Keely Savoie of Mount Holyoke College reports on a literary genre I was unfamiliar with: It was once inconceivable: girls and young women pursuing higher education away from home, where they lived in dorms with one another, apart from their families. But after Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Seminary in 1837 as the first of the Seven Sisters schools, higher … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » Paragraph texter

Monday 8 February 8:00:00 UTC 2016

Someone who types long responses to a text "Wow, Hannah just sent me a really long responce. She's a paragraph texter" [Link]

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