(b)logophile

I don’t plan on making a habit of this, but… I just discovered a 2nd-hand bookstore on the Leidsegracht, specialised in art history with a large and lovely collection of illuminated manuscript reproductions. They have a complete colour-plate copy of the Lindisfarne Gospels, for a measly €130… I managed to resist that one, but got [...]

Studying semantics doesn’t give you much to laugh at, most of the time. In fact, rather the reverse: being too aware of what words mean, you start to miss what people mean when they say them. Anyone confronted with “Oh, it’s funny because…” has probably just told a joke to a semanticist. But there are [...]

(This one is for the Kiwis, down there in the deep dark depths of winter. Not that it will make you feel better, mind. It’s a story of spontaneous summer cycling, funk, punk, and watermelon.)