Bart Westgeest

Hope Gate, Québec ca. 1871, by Louis-Prudent Vallée There are many languages, many words. All spoken languages are prefect because they have been used for centuries. But sometimes there is a word in a language that seems to be unknown in other languages. I looked up the word prudent, as I didn’t know exactly how to define it. According [...]

As you can see from this screenshot from today’s notes I have trouble on concentrating me on one language. When I read Dutch I spontaneously write in Dutch, and the same goes for English and Danish. I don’t really know what to do with this right now, it is not always practical but it happens. To write a [...]

When words come quickly and my fingers barely can keep up with the stream of thoughts I usually don’t stop to look up a word in a dictionary. My English vocabulary isn’t too big unfortunately so I sometimes use words in three different languages. My own, that of the country I live in and English. [...]