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

languagehat.com » Russian Neologisms.

Wednesday 15 February 17:55:57 UTC 2017

Since I’m in the middle of reading Bengt Jangfeldt’s Mayakovsky bio (and, of course, Mayakovsky’s poetry to go with it), it seemed like a good time to haul out my copy of Assya Humesky’s 1964 Majakovskij and His Neologisms , and I thought this passage from the introduction was interesting enough to share: In the history of Russian literature certain periods … [Link]

Language Log » Morphosyntactic innovation in the White House?

Wednesday 15 February 15:33:00 UTC 2017

From the "Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sean Spicer, 2/14/2017, #12" (starting at 15:23 of the ABC News video): Your browser does not support the audio element. JONATHAN KARL: Back in January, the President said that nobody in his campaign had been in touch with the Russians. Now, today, can you still say definitively that nobody on the Trump campaign, … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » Trumpshake

Wednesday 15 February 8:30:00 UTC 2017

When a handshake between two persons goes past the extra time—it can last up to twenty-odd seconds. President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Abe had a trumpshake at the White House—did the "epic handshake" set a new record in diplomatic circles? [Link]

languagehat.com » CoCoON.

Wednesday 15 February 3:06:05 UTC 2017

CoCoON (COllections de COrpus Oraux Numériques) is a platform for oral resources; it’s got Atlas Linguistique des Côtes de l’Atlantique et de la Manche, Atlas linguistique d’Haïti, AuCo: corpus audio de langues du Vietnam et des pays voisins, lots of good stuff. I got the link through the good offices of the ever-alert bulbul, who says “I discovered it only … [Link]

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