Languages

2021-04-08T21:51:58+02:00

A humorous article from The Economist explains how “Netflix is creating a common European culture” through their efforts of promoting shows from different European and …

2020-03-20T13:49:09+01:00

Paul Elie writes at The New Yorker on the uses of metaphors in relation the the Covid-19 virus. Based on the work of Susan Sontag he reminds us to be careful on our use of language …

2020-01-24T09:19:33+01:00

Een leuk lijste op Historiek.net, de “Top 50 Arabische woorden in het Nederlands”. Verrassend –of misschien ook niet– hoeveel alledaagse woorden als leenwoorden in het Nederlands …

2019-03-20T10:25:28+01:00

In France there has been a change in gender marking in job titles. A large part of previously traditional masculin job titles did not have a feminine form. Via 7 jours sur la …

2019-01-17T12:46:17+01:00

This is an interesting use of a so-called Sankey diagram (a type of flow chart) to visualise spelling mistakes, by Collin Morris. Misspellings of ‘Gyllenhaal’ by Colin Morris