How Understanding #Writer’s Intent and #Story Enhance Your #ScriptAnalysis #Skills

https://castingfrontier.com/blog/script-analysis-part-1-actors-you-really-should-know-what-youre-talking-about/?lid=gv1t3bjjec2f
#audition #acting #actor #director

Does anyone know of the best resources for checking whether words were #homophones in 1800s American #English? For example, Straight/Strait?

This is one of the most useful and privacy-preserving features built into Firefox. This removes URL tracking when you click on the links. Right-click on the URL in the email and "Copy Link without site tracking."

Passkeys as successors to passwords. https://thecyberwire.com/stories/cfc959975d84402aa69206d9a2370a59/passkeys-as-successors-to-passwords #Story

I’m a scholar of medieval (mainly ~200~1000 CE) Chinese literature and religion at UC Santa Barbara, and have side interests in digital humanities, translation, and world literature. I’ve written a lot about Buddhist poetry in the Tang Dynasty. I also teach Classical Chinese and a bunch of other things here.
#sinology #literature #TangDynasty #UCSB #Buddhism #poetry #translation #DigitalHumanites #introduction

My first book will be coming out with Cornell University Press next year. It's titled "Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China." There's finally a webpage for it, so it feels "real" enough to announce.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773839/poet-monks/#bookTabs=1

#PoetMonks combines #CloseReading, #DigitalHumanities, and #Manuscript studies to re-examine the role of #Buddhism in #Medieval #Chinese #poetry and rethink #literaryhistory.

Cover art (and much more!) to come soon.

@sino_lit

@ijustmightbe excellent Blue :Trawler photos, and even more excellent ALT descriptions on them!

I have always preferred the rich history, artistry, and meaning of traditional characters. Plus, love in simplified Chinese is heartless. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/et-commentary/love-in-simplified-chinese-is-without-a-heart/

"We live in a reality of polyphonic first-person narratives". Excellent thoughts from @mariapopova https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/tenderness-olga-tokarczuk-nobel-prize/

@chrisale Thanks for this fantastic visualization. Perhaps as well link to the source??

https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1810040/infographic-world-languages

"When you're old, all you want to do is stare at the scenery. It's so strange. I've never felt so peaceful before."
Howl's Moving Castle . Hayao Miyazaki. 2004.

#AnimationMonday #Miyazaki #Castle #JoeHisaishi #Steampunk #friendship #motionpicture #photography #movie #StudioGhibli #fantastic #story #magic #Childhood #masterpiece #screenplay #romance #OldAge #ghibli

@thezerobit I thought Spanish did? I know French does. I imagine Chinese does.

RT @prathyvsh
@dannyhillis Von Neumann on the divide between combinatorial (discrete) vs. analytical (continuous) in computation.

From “The General and Logical Theory of Automata” (1948): https://www.vordenker.de/ggphilosophy/jvn_the-general-and-logical-theory-of-automata.pdf

@thezerobit Out of interest, which languages have thrived without standardization? How do you teach a language without standardization? (this is genuine curiosity, not trolling)

Today I learned that there is a strong argument to be made for Christ actually speaking Greek, not just Aramaic.

#obedience : subjection to rightful restraint or control

- French: obédience

- Italian: obbedienza

- Portuguese: obediência

- Spanish: obediencia

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

#perception : apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them

- French: aperçu

- Italian: percezione

- Portuguese: percepção

- Spanish: percepción

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@thezerobit Except, language requires some standardization in order to do its job. It needs dictionaries in order to stay common and accessible. When you disband standards you promote divergence and issues. I am no believer in a biblical single language for unity, but languages must have an identity. "I've taken classes in Chinese" should be an assertion that allows some expectations about communication ability

I use plain-text email; I prefer plain-text email; but sometimes my recipients want html formatted mail. English Rhetoric is knowing when to change the style of your communications for the benefit of the hearer.

On academia to tech job markets and life considerations
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@CNarratology Hello, here is your unroll: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1572253702332743681.html Talk to you soon. 🤖
https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1572632516263043072