André Hazes, the notable (but not notably abstemious–he famously lit up in the no-smoking cinema in which his life-film was being premiered) Dutch singer, died yesterday morning. RIP, one would think, but the Dutch music industry is smart–and tacky–enough not to miss a fiscal-friendly moment like this: Enschede a/ Zee has scanned the condolence ad…
Here’s a photo from the opening of the Barcelona Forum’s big youth jamboree: Yep, lots of flags and statist rhetoric (hello, nineteenth century!), so, with the local dealers having jetted off to Athens yesterday, it’s good to have Enschede aan Zee to get us through the summer. EaZ went through a distinctly uneazy patch a…
Enschede a/ zee heeft een reisbedrijf ontdekt, Kasbah.com, dat strandvakanties in Enschede verkoopt. De wateroverlast was behoorlijk toen de gletsjers zo’n 10.000 jaar geleden uit Twente vertrokken, maar geologen wisten tot heden niet dat Enschede toen ook al zo goed voorzien was van logeergelegenheid.
Some of the recent obituaries of super-poet Willem Wilmink (1936-2003) managed to avoid mentioning his writings in Twents, despite the fact that this part of his work – he also translated, wrote and rewrote extensively in Dutch – enjoyed a large following in Twente. Let’s start by locating the two languages. Linguists classify Dutch and…
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