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Lernu Esperanton: Why Writers Embrace Artificial Languages
15 October 2024
When no well-known language can adequately express what you want to convey, what do you do? For a few bold writers in the Low Countries, the answer was clear: they chose a new language, such as Esperanto, Ido, or Volapük. Marc van Oostendorp, an Esperanto enthusiast himself, rediscovers three write
That’s Why I Happily Write With My Chatbot
11 April 2024
Dutch linguist Marc van Oostendorp is still astonished by what ChatGPT and its counterparts can do. Nonetheless, he has seamlessly integrated this artificial intelligence into his work. In this piece, he argues that collaborating with a chatbot positively impacts both the writer and the reader.
Why We Will Never Agree About Dutch
21 March 2023
Dutch is a multicentric language, that is the consensus propagated by the Taalunie (Dutch Language Union) and others. We all speak Dutch, but some of us speak Belgian Dutch, others Netherlandic Dutch, and still others Surinamese Dutch. Linguist and Professor of Dutch Marc van Oostendorp exposes that
Bring on the Language Police!
22 March 2019
Words become outlawed, and people with different opinions soon accuse the other party of engaging in ‘framing’: presenting a subject in a subjective way by using language that evokes specific associations. Are the language police just round the corner? According to the Dutch linguist Marc van Oo