John Gordon Ross

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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.

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Language Log » Real life

Monday 24 July 14:51:26 UTC 2017

Today's SMBC: For a more complex but pointed analogy, see "The Pirahã and us", 10/6/2007. [Link]

Urban Word of the Day » zuckerversary

Monday 24 July 7:30:00 UTC 2017

When you celebrate a year of friendship on Facebook. Jim: Hey Steve, we've been friends for six years on Facebook. Happy zuckerversary! [Link]

languagehat.com » Scots Threip.

Monday 24 July 1:26:36 UTC 2017

In investigating various matters connected with this post, I ran into John M. Tait’s site Scots Threip: Scots Threip consists of writings of my own on the Scots Language. It started as a place to put them so that I could refer to them in forum discussions. Many of the articles are in Scots as they were written either for … [Link]

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