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  • Interview with Dutch-American wordsmith (and translator) Marjolijn de Jager

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    Jonathan Goldberg

    The following interview was conducted by Skype between Los Angeles CA and Stamford, Connecticut.   Marjolijn de Jager – the interviewee            J.G. – the interviewer   Connecticut in fall   California in fall                 ———————————————————————————– JG: You were born in Indonesia, which at that time was…

  • Introducing WordsmithsBlog.com –

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    Jonathan Goldberg

    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 – both those in their mother tongues and those in the foreign languages…