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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
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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
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(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
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A question I was asked recently on twitter. Yes, but it depends what you mean by ‘immersion’ and what you think the goal is. I don’t normally use the term ‘immersion’, because that normally, strictly, pertains to a method that involves full-time immersion in a language, so all
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This is me picking up some pieces and adding nuance to one of my usual hobby horses, that is communicative approaches to ancient/classical/historical languages. 1. Does Grammar/Translation ‘work’? I think this partly depends upon what we mean by ‘work’. My main interest is developing students who can
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In this post I discuss, in brief and embryonic form, the difference between lemma and token frequencies for John's Gospel. At the bottom of this post you'll find an unwieldy table. I haven't quite figured out a good way to do tables. Anyway, these
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In today's post I rambling self-reflect on my history as a language learner. I don't suppose that has a broad appeal as a topic of interest, but if you already know me, you might find it of interest. I sat down to write this out