Marjolijn de Jager, PhD, Translator | English, Dutch, French — by: Marjolijn de Jager, Ph.D
Marjolijn de Jager, PhD, Translator | English, Dutch, French — by: Marjolijn de Jager, Ph.D
Description: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition © 2020 defines wordsmith as: A fluent and prolific writer, especially one who writes professionally. An expert on words. For the purposes of this blog, we prefer a wider definition, one that embraces all those who (like the undersigned, a professional translator) use words
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition © 2020 defines wordsmith as:
For the purposes of this blog, we prefer a wider definition, one that embraces all those who (like the undersigned, a professional translator) use words - both those in their mother tongues and those in the foreign languages they aspire to command - as their tools of trade and the object of their passion.
This blog has its genesis in a French-language blog, www.Le-mot-juste-en-anglais.com, which has been active since I created it in 2010. For several years LMJ has run monthly interviews, initially with translators and subsequently with other linguists. We have dubbed each such interviewee “Linguist of the Month”. The goal of WordsmithsBlog is to reproduce interviews conducted in English, (as opposed to those conducted directly in French) and published on Le Mot Juste . Since 2012, our interviewees have run
Marjolijn de Jager, PhD, Translator | English, Dutch, French — by: Marjolijn de Jager, Ph.D
Marjolijn de Jager, PhD, Translator | English, Dutch, French — by: Marjolijn de Jager, Ph.D