Kollum Aant Mulder: Goeie, dobrý den

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In wat nuver begjin fan dizze kollum, mar dobrý den betsjut ‘goeie’ yn it Tsjechysk. Wy ha okkerwyks nei Tsjechië ta west. Yn ien dei wiene we der. De ôfstân is dus net rare grut, mar de ferskillen tusken ús lân en Tsjechië binne dat wol. Foar in grut part ha dy ferskillen te krijen mei de hiele oare skiednis fan dat lân midden yn Europa.

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Seven Books I’ll Never Read

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There comes a point in every reader’s life when they must make peace with all the books they’ll never read. This is true even for the most voracious reader in the world. They say Alexander Pope was the last person to have read every book ever written. Given today’s publishing release schedules and the advent of e-publishing, a newborn in 2018 who lived to be eighty and did nothing but read their entire life would not even read a small fraction of the world’s library, an exponentially gigantized Babel straight out of Borges’s most fevered fantasy.

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Blog Johan Veenstra: Ik hadde vandaege een snipperdag

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Een laet dagboekstokkien… Ik bin krek thuus en hadde vandaege een snipperdag. Fettje het mien plakkien in Berkoop inneumen. As zi’j al heur charmes in de stried gooid het, het ze grif meer boeken verkocht as ik in de regel doe. Ik zal et morgen zien… We bin vandaege mit de boot et waeter op west. Een heerlike dag!

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Kristina Kočan explores Het Bildt

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Last Friday, 3th of August, our Slovenian guest Kristina Kočan visited Het Bildt. Her guides to the area were Gerard de Jong and Mirjam Vellinga. Gerard grew up and still lives in Het Bildt. He is the editor of the local weekly newspaper Bildtse Post and as an author in the Bildts language he has stayed in Donostia/San Sebastián as an Other Words writer in 2017.

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