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

Urban Word of the Day » disingest

Friday 16 June 7:00:00 UTC 2017

To shit. BRB, I have to go disingest my burrito. [Link]

Language Log » Bird language

Friday 16 June 4:36:03 UTC 2017

From an anonymous correspondent: I had wanted to ask you about niǎoyǔ 鸟语 (“bird language”) after listening to an interview with Garry Kasparov. During the interview, he and the interviewer, the economist Tyler Cowen, get into a fairly abtruse discussion of chess. I’ll paste the most relevant part of the transcript: KASPAROV: Now you move back to these things, chess … [Link]

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