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We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. (Deborah Tannen)
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. (Jack Lynch)
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. (Robert Heinlein)
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. (H. G. Wells)
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. (George Bernard Shaw)
Western Europe owes its civilization to translators. (Kelly Louis)
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. (Hans Georg Gadamer)
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. (Oscar Wilde)
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. (Benjamin Disraeli)
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. (Edwin Schlossberg)
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. (Isaac Asimov)
Language is an art, like brewing or baking. (Charles Darwin)
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. (Thomas Berger)
Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.' (Jef Mallett)
Writers will happen in the best of families. (Rita Mae Brown)

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20-07 texts on Neeltje Jans
10-04 editor new paper Eenhoornkrant
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20-01 communication DEEL& Ulrum
29-05 technical translation websites
23-04 cover photo Badkoerier
23-01 translations: Greek, English and more
26-10 texts hiking maps Zeeland
30-09 best edition Film by the Sea ever
01-07 rewrite of texts tourist website
26-06 communication prestigious art project: Facade 2012
17-03 texts info panel Grevelingen
21-11 Polish translations
20-10 Napoleon, William and an English soldier
20-10 Texts for cycling routes
24-09 Sonja at Film by the Sea
17-07 English site De Berk
02-07 text and translation ZEP flyer
01-07 Omroep Zeeland project
26-06 on the right track with SBText
25-06 new site by the Sea
04-06 thanks
02-06 it’s all Italian to me
01-06 vacation works for me

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. (Deborah Tannen)

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. (Jack Lynch)

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. (Robert Heinlein)

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. (H. G. Wells)

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. (George Bernard Shaw)

Western Europe owes its civilization to translators. (Kelly Louis)

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. (Hans Georg Gadamer)

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. (Oscar Wilde)

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. (Benjamin Disraeli)

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. (Edwin Schlossberg)

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. (Isaac Asimov)

Language is an art, like brewing or baking. (Charles Darwin)

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. (Thomas Berger)

Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.' (Jef Mallett)

Writers will happen in the best of families. (Rita Mae Brown)

News archive

14-09 super hero stories for HZ campaign

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