linguistics

Interview with British wordsmith (and educator) Wendy Ayres-Bennett

Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Professor of French Philology and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, works on the history of the French language and the history of linguistic thought, particularly in seventeenth-century France. Her major research interests include questions of standardisation and codification, linguistic ideology and policy, variation and change, from the sixteenth century to the present day.

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

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

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Introducing WordsmithsBlog.com –

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 they aspire to command – as their tools of  trade and the object of their passion.

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