It is nice to have a wall full of books. Being signallers of great intellectual virtue, bookshelves are enjoying their moment in the sun, choicely lit in the background of a thousand Zoom interviews on TV. The sight of my shelves gives me limited pleasure, as I am reproached by the spines of so many books I have never actually, you know, read. It’s cheating, that’s what it is. You should only be allowed to display books you have finished, or at least got more than halfway through. Watching some opining clever dick on a news channel, with hundreds upon hundreds of weighty tomes displayed behind them, I find it impossible to concentrate on anything this intellectual fraud is saying.… Lês fierder

Once upon a time Frisian and English were kin languages.
They were spoken along the coasts of the North Sea. Roman historians used to call the latter the Frisian Sea at the time.
In the last five centuries, however, the Frisian language has been under siege by other languages, especially French and Dutch. The influence of those two languages is plain to see.

Lês fierder by Jaap Slager… Lês fierder

tt iennichste dat net sa hiele goed giet yn Fryslân is de skriuwerij fan Fryske skriuwers. Dat sei de literatueradviseur snein foar de radio. Se moatte op les!

No wol ik net eigenwiis oerkomme mar ik ha bêst wol in pear skriuwers meimakke en doe is my net echt opfallen dat se net skriuwe kinne. Fansels leit de iene jo better as de oare mar om no te sizzen dat se net skriuwe kinne?

Lês fierder by Daam de Vries… Lês fierder