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 » Xi'Viet

Wednesday 17 August 1:09:14 UTC 2016

Michael Rank took this photograph earlier today (8/16/16) and posted it on flickr: The shop is located in Hackney, London. Here's Michael's explanation of the wording on the signage: Vietnamese & Xi'anese street food, London E8 Xi'anese is comprehensible if you have heard of Xi'an 西安 (“Western Peace”), ancient imperial capital and capital of modern Shaanxi province, although it's a … [Link]

languagehat.com » Second Best Moments.

Wednesday 17 August 1:00:34 UTC 2016

A couple of years ago, in this LH thread, Ian recommended Frank Kuppner‘s book Second Best Moments in Chinese History , saying “Everything Kuppner writes is gorgeous. He uses an idiom of surreal wistfulness that might have distant forebears in a few other British writers, but essentially didn’t exist until he invented it”; I recently got a copy for my birthday … [Link]

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