My name is John.

Currently working as a Team Lead in Content Management at jobleads.com

Online Marketeer
The world wide web is my oyster.
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Language Lover
Translation beyond words.
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Appearance matters.
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Recent blog posts

  1. Is English the official language of music?

    It seems to be challenging for other languages to break the international charts, let alone selling over 20 million records to enter the legendary most selling albums – Andrea Bocelli, who sings in Italian, looks rather lonely in this table. Is English better than other languages? English sells well, nobody will question that. It does […]

    August 11, 2019

  2. A Simplified Introduction to Irish Names

    Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Ní Raghallaigh, Ní Tuama, Ó hAonghusa,… No idea how to read, let alone utter, those words? Quite likely like most people and yet these words come from a European language. Gaelige is a speech that differs a lot from its fellow European languages. Official language, with English, of the Republic of Ireland, it […]

    July 10, 2019

  3. Amélie Nothomb, Graphomaniac Writer

    Note: This article was originally published in 2011 on Lexiophiles.com. Since then, Amélie Nothomb wrote 7 more novels and the latest to date is Les prénoms épicènes. Amélie Nothomb, 43, is one of the most popular writers of her generation and composes in French. She published no less than 19 novels, which is a mere […]

    June 26, 2019

  4. Average is worse than you think: “Avarie” linguistic tale

    Lately, I have been reading a book about the influence of the Arabic language on modern French: “Nos ancêtres les Arabes” by Jean Pruvost. It’s a wonderful book if you are into linguistics and share a passion for words and how they evolved into what they are now over the centuries. Among the many words […]

    November 30, 2018
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