John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons

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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 » With Interjected Finger.

Friday 28 April 16:19:27 UTC 2017

My wife, after reading me numerous bits from Ford Madox Ford’s memoir Memories and Impressions: A Study in Atmospheres , told me I had to read it myself, and so I am doing, with immense pleasure (reading her in turn numerous bits, sometimes the same bits she had previously read to me). The following passage, from the end of the chapter … [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » Stroker's Guilt

Friday 28 April 7:30:00 UTC 2017

That feeling of remorse/self loathing/shame after busting a huge nut to questionable pornographic material. I suffered Stroker's Guilt after getting off to a midget clown gang bang. [Link]

Language Log » Secret bilingual language

Friday 28 April 0:23:31 UTC 2017

My wife and I used to have a private language that was full of bilingual, cryptic references such as the following: Yáo Shùn Yǔ 尧舜禹 (the names of three ancient, wise, Chinese rulers) || sānmíngzhì 三明治 ("three wise rulers"), the Chinese transcription of English "sandwich". Thus, if we wished to ask each other, "Do you want to eat a sandwich?", … [Link]

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