The Afrikaans Language Monument celebrates the language’s origins rooted in three continents – Africa, Europe and Asia. More specifically, there is a 13.5-metre column that commemorates the European contribution and refers, amongst others, to the role of Dutch, German, English and Portuguese in this regard. However, a recent publication, Greek-Afrikaans wordlist, reminds us of one of the deeper classical sources of Afrikaans that can still be found in modern Greek today.

In the popular imagination, Homer as author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, epitomises poetic genius. So, when scholars proposed that the Homeric epics were not t…

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‘If you write doctrine, then you’re a bad writer. If you have some talent as a writer, you don’t do that. You create a universe.’

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A university professor on what we lose when we lose the book as a physical medium.

“Every novel is—at the beginning—the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.”

To stir interest, Finnish universities are admitting beginners to language majors.

… is a class worth taking.