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 » Das Empire.

Wednesday 29 March 22:32:17 UTC 2017

I’m only on the first chapter of Dominic Lieven’s The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution , but I can already tell it’s going to be one of those books I’ll recommend to people for years to come — I have to pause after just about every paragraph to think about what he just said … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » downtight

Wednesday 29 March 7:00:00 UTC 2017

Opposite of uptight; laid back; chill I hate hanging with snobs. I'm to downtight. [Link]

languagehat.com » The Goethe Dictionary.

Wednesday 29 March 1:43:46 UTC 2017

Gero Schliess reports on what the title accurately calls a “mammoth task”: Precisely 70 years ago, the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin initiated the huge project of the Goethe dictionary – a lexicon precisely listing, describing and explaining every single word used by Goethe in his poems, dramas, letters, official writings and scientific essays. In his speech on the … [Link]

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