Month: April 2000
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David Crystal – linguist of the month of April 2018
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW In March, Grant Hamilton, translator, author of Les trucs d'anglais qu'on a oublié de vous enseigner and regular collaborator with Le Mot juste en anglais, spoke with David Crystal, one of the world’s most eminent English-language linguists [*]. Below is a shortened transcript of their conversation. David Crystal The Interviewee Grant Hamilton The Interviewer…
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Geert Sivellis – linguist of the month of April 2017
Jonathan G. interviewed Geert Sillevis following a guided walking tour through Amsterdam conducted by Geert. Geert Sivellis LMJ: You have Dutch-sounding names and you live in Amsterdam, and yet you were born and grew up in Portugal. How did that happen? GS: My parents are both Dutch but they met in Portugal and have been…