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

Language Log » "You Brexit, you bought it"

Saturday 25 June 18:09:27 UTC 2016

Roni Stern, "If you Brexit — You Bought it", Finance Magnates 4/20/2016. Also, Annie Laurie, "Brexit? I hardly even touched it!", Balloon Juice 6/25/2016. And many tweets, e.g. Remember @BorisJohnson: you #Brexit, you bought it pic.twitter.com/xjo5S9nBv1 — Dexit Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) June 25, 2016 Other humorous responses include a New Yorker cover: Next week's New Yorker cover is Pythons updated, post-Brexit: … [Link]

Language Log » Upping our insult game

Saturday 25 June 13:41:27 UTC 2016

Carmen Fought observes that "Fellow citizens, we have to up our insult game. The Scots are making us look like wankers. ‪#‎mangledapricothellbeast‬". Certainly the Scots have taught us a wide variety of new words and insult phrases in response to Donald Trump's tweet about Brexit. @realDonaldTrump we voted remain you polyester cockwomble — neil fleming (@ThatNeilFleming) June 25, 2016 Scotland … [Link]

languagehat.com » Woody Words.

Saturday 25 June 13:38:52 UTC 2016

I don’t know if this is “Monty Python’s best sketch ever,” but it’s certainly their most linguistically focused, and it’s hilarious throughout. Gorn! (Or is that “gone”?) [Link]

Wordorigins.org » Woody Words

Saturday 25 June 12:04:00 UTC 2016

This classic popped up on my Facebook feed today: [Discuss this post] [Link]

Language Log » Illusion

Saturday 25 June 10:57:42 UTC 2016

Bob Ladd sent in a link to "Five Questions on Brexit to Jo Shaw", Verfassungsblog 6/24/2016 [emphasis added]: There’s a possibility for the Article 50 trigger to be delayed, and the UK simply to carry on in membership, and then – once the UK population has had long enough to digest the real implications of Leave […] a second referendum … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » Village Bicycle

Saturday 25 June 7:00:00 UTC 2016

Someone who is easy to ingage sexual activity on a regular basis and has no problem doing it with with various different individuals. Niamh is such a village bicycle. Yeah totally everyone gets a ride! [Link]

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