More Than just Valentine’s Day – The Story of the Oaths of Strasbourg

Yesterday, by the way, wasn't just Saint Valentine's Day. It was also a special day for the history of Strasbourg, and that of France and the French language in general, as it was on this day many, many years ago, in 842, that the Oaths of Strasbourg were delivered, and then signed, in what was… Continue reading More Than just Valentine’s Day – The Story of the Oaths of Strasbourg

Happy Valentine’s to my Fellow Terps and Book Lovers

It's Valentine's Day. And this, too, is a love story. A story of deep and ever-growing affection for that beautiful, enigmatic, and often elusive creature, the English language, for reading in general, in all my languages, and a few I am not quite yet ready to call that, and for interpreting, a profession I am… Continue reading Happy Valentine’s to my Fellow Terps and Book Lovers