国立国会図書館が、ついに、彼らの東アジア古典籍OCRを普通のパソコンで使えるようにしました！これは木版本をターゲットにしているものですが、写本もできないものかと、試しにBnFのPelliot collectionの般若波羅蜜多心経の写本をかけてみたら、まあまあ使えそうです。みなさんもぜひ試してください！
github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk...
Jasmin Kaur?
Same.
I want to know about the lives of more than just 18% of the world population and while with German and Japanese I can speak with roughly 22% of the world, we need to share that task. US Americans need language education to communicate with our fellow human beings.
Around the world, English might be the most commonly spoken language at 1.5 billion, but that is ironically only 18% of the global population. English speakers are a language minority worldwide. www.statista.com/statistics/2...
That also means that 18% spoke another language at home. The US is not monolingual.
According to 2000 Census data, 82% of Americans 5 years and older spoke only English at home. That's a lot of monolingualism. I wonder how it stands now. www.census.gov/data/tables/...
"The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. . . . [It] is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin." Emerson "The Poet" emersoncentral.com/texts/essays...
A screencap of the introductory text for the webpage "East Asia-related Job market Data in Progress (2024-2025)," which showcases job data information in East Asian Studies.
24 new job ads in East Asian Studies for 2024-2025! See the details of this week's postings below or visit the filter database to search by category/keyword. 🌏📊 Now 604 entries. prcurtis.com/projects/job...
Great ideas! I wish I could argue their relationship with our course on Muromachi period performing arts. Do you have any that include intercultural understanding or Japanese history? We're analyzing this movie with students: youtu.be/iGL4ETxVKd8?...
I am so with going plastic free and have been reducing for years, but I also just made a large purchase of Japanese sweets for a school visit with my college students. Any ideas for reducing plastic waste at the next opportunity for community engagement are very welcome!
For those of us with retirement funds, now may be a good time to check what we are investing in. www.asyousow.org/invest-your-...
A person at a lecturn giving a lecture as a slide on a screen in the background says "The Work of Translation in an Age of AI, Kendall Heitzman, University of Iowa"
It was such a pleasure to host Kendall Heitzman on campus last week and talk about ongoing projects and the opportunities for translation. Thank you to everyone who came out to hear his reading/lecture!
Oh, professor, but it *feels* like six hours.
