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Tips on How to Create an Escher Sentence and Other Ambiguities

8 November 2022

Linguist Marten van der Meulen is fascinated by a special phenomenon: the Escher sentence. And although it can drive you crazy, he is happy to provide some tips on how to create ambiguous sentences.

There Is No Such Thing as an Untranslatable Word

12 October 2022

What do the French mean by esprit de l’escalier? It can easily be explained, writes linguist Marten van der Meulen. That’s why he finds it odd that this expression often appears in lists of “untranslatable words”. Surely those kinds of words do not actually exist?

Croissants, French Fries and the Rainbow Lollipop of Language

4 May 2021

Not being able to travel: it’s too bad for Dutch linguist Marten van der Meulen. He misses the new tastes, smells, and views that one discovers on holiday, but also the little language findings one makes in unfamiliar surroundings. ‘As a sixteen-year-old boy, I made the unforgivable mistake of o

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