Jeroen Brouwers wrote about the Taalunie: “I also remain of the opinion that the Taalunie can be closed down with immediate effect as an institution wrongly assigned to millions by the state without the slightest sense and function.” When correcting a book about problems that people encounter at work, I check the spelling of a number of words on wordlist.org, a site of the Language Union. Jeroen Brouwers was right: „Superwoman not found. Did you perhaps mean: superman?”
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A version of this article also appeared in the newspaper of 11 June 2022