Category Archives: Language

WordPress forces us to use Block editor

I would like to express my displeasure with the way WordPress is forcing us to use more and more the Gutenberg Block Editor. Continue reading

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Hidden or hoped for skill

One of my wishes is to be able to play with words again and to be able to create some nice poetry. Continue reading

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The madness of rewriting or reworking literature continues

The further attack by publishers of novellas and literary masterpieces by simply deleting words and descriptions to be supposedly acceptable in our contemporary culture. Continue reading

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Word banning

There are those who think we should exclude certain words from use. On the contrary, I think we should allow as many words in our language as possible, as these variants enrich the language. Continue reading

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WordPress or Jetpack

If you had the WordPress app installed, you probably got already an invitation to switch to the JetPackk app. having your data and settings automatically transferred to the Jetpack app. Continue reading

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Margaret Zaleski-Zamenho from Paris telling in Esperanto about the situation in France

Margaret Zaleski-Zamenhof is a doctor living in Paris. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, and is the great-granddaughter of the creator of Esperanto, Luis Lazaro Zamenhof, and the daughter of her grandson Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof. She knows many languages ​​(Polish, French, … Continue reading

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Communication and Multilingualism

The European Union is only e very tiny part of the world surface. In that Union loads of languages are spoken and it is very important to come to a harmonious co-existence of 24 official languages. It is one of … Continue reading

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The man outranking the others having the trump card

In a game of cards, a trump is a playing card which belongs to the suit which has been chosen as trumps, trumps being the suit which is chosen to have the highest value in one particular game, outranking all … Continue reading

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A trillion words

In 1995 my world seem to open with the acquisition of a Windows 1995 desktop computer. In-logging for the internet was an expensive and slow system by phoning in. For filling in forms and evaluations of the students for the … Continue reading

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Looking at Lord of Montaigne – ancient and present words

When looking at words from the past, we often forget that they still can matter in the present day or in the future. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne or Lord of Montaigne may have been looked at as a self-indulgent person. … Continue reading

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