Language
Technique: Listen-Read-Listen Here's a technique that works well if you're intentionally trying to develop aural comprehension skill. You need an audio source with text, so generally either (a) a recording that has an accompanying transcript (I use this for Gaelic with a 5 minute
Language
Recently I was reading a document about extensive reading and it highlighted the difference between intensive and extensive reading in the above terms (reading to learn, learning to read). Intensive reading is reading 'above' our level, or sometimes below our level but with a lot of analysis thrown
Greek
Recently I was reading an introductory Greek grammar for which the 'reading' exercise had the instructions (non verbatim): 1. Read aloud 2. Parse all words fully 3. Translate Firstly, commendable at all that "read aloud" is an instruction at all. But as usual I think this
Greek
One of the many current things occupying my overfull plate is trawling through betacode entries of LSJ headwords to sort out things that are 'odd'. And LSJ has some odd things. Like pe/dijos Why is there a j there? That ain't no Greek letter. So
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I suspect that one of the outcomes of current development of tertiary online education models, at least in the models I’m most familiar with (which is a few), will be an entrenchment of a divide between permanent faculty and the continued subsistence of an academic underclass of adjuncts. I
DH
So the first step in my project is getting from a print text to a digital text. There are a few options for doing OCR. Bruce Robertson at Mt. Allison University is involved in LACE: Greek OCR, a large scale project to produce high quality OCR of ancient Greek texts.
Language
The other day I was in a conversation and couldn’t for the life of me retrieve the Gàidhlig word for “question”. All I could think of was freagairt, which is “answer”. I had to ask what it was. It’s ceist, of course. Duh. That’s a word I
DH
(Here for the blog-series kick-off post). We’re playing catch-up a little, and these are things I did in the tail end of 2017. It’s been a long time since I’ve done anything with Unix. About 10 years, actually, and my unix experience was limited
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One of my projects for 2018 is to take a text and shepherd it, or curate it, all the way through an open source pipeline from 'print' to 'digital edition'. This is part of my 2018 year of digital humanities. Here I talk a little bit
Productivity
Since my life/work balance, and my work/work balance, has become more and more fractured, I’ve felt the need to organise it more effectively. Last year I started using todoist, which I love because there’s nothing I quite enjoy as much as ticking off a to-do
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One of my goals for 2018 is to acquire a working skillset in areas of Digital Humanities. As I do so, I plan to blog regularly on that ‘mission’. In today’s post, I provide some context for the start of that journey. I’d say I’ve long had
Greek
One of the downsides of training students to translate in order to understand, is that they very often develop the erroneous notion that translation is meaning. "The meaning of Greek word X is English word Y", or slightly more complex versions of the same. No, no, no. Greek