Joe Hoffman
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Joe Hoffman posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
Concur. That outcome is depressingly probable.
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Joe Hoffman posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
I saw this video at the Bibliotheque National de France exhibition. My eye was caught by his apology for a mistake. “Something I just made up” can’t have a mistake in it — he thought of the Tengwar as a real writing system.
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Joe Hoffman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years ago
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Joe Hoffman replied to the topic Why do most academic publications not broaden knowledge? in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThere is a facile pessimistic answer, but everyone already thought of it so I’ll give the optimistic answer instead.
This is a temporary condition, caused by the tremendous expansion of productive capacity in the world’s economy. Because so few of us are needed to grow food and build houses now, we have a lot more scholars than we used to, and…[Read more]
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Joe Hoffman started the topic Where hobbits live in Britain in the discussion
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoA paper about hobbit names I wrote a couple of years ago. It is perhaps more fun than digital-humanities papers usually turn out to be.
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Joe Hoffman deposited Spell-checking “The Lord of the Rings” in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years agoThis is a list of all the character strings in The Lord of the Rings that are flagged as misspelled by the Unix spell checker. [International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6.1)]. It includes archaic words, British spelling, words in Tolkien’s invented languages, and onomatopoeia. It errs on the side of inclusion – varying cases and…[Read more]
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Joe Hoffman deposited Pronouncing Dictionary Supplement for “The Lord of the Rings” on Humanities Commons 7 years ago
A supplement to the Carnegie-Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict) for words that occur in “The Lord of the Rings”. Includes contractions, archaic words, British spellings, and words from Tolkien’s invented languages.
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This is a list of all the character strings in The Lord of the Rings that are flagged as misspelled by the Unix spell checker. [International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6.1)]. It includes archaic words, British spelling, words in Tolkien’s invented languages, and onomatopoeia. It errs on the side of inclusion – varying cases and…[Read more]
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Joe Hoffman started the topic Dictionary of English Etymology – is it online? in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoGoogle Scholar found me a preprint entitled “The Dictionary of English Etymology for Analyzing Expressions”, by SARAKI Masashi, OSADA Tetsuo, and NITTA Yoshihiko at Nihon University. (No idea if it was ever published.) Such a dictionary would come in very handy, if I could query it from a script.
Does anyone know of a place this can be found online?
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Joe Hoffman deposited Boundaries of the Future in Two William Gibson Novels in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoActuality is a border between the world that is and the future worlds that could be. Science- fiction stories look across the border, into the frontiers of ‘the future’. William Gibson did his part in the 1980s to invent cyberpunk fiction as a slick, stylish view into a bleak dystopian future, but by the turn of the century, much of what he’d…[Read more]
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Joe Hoffman started the topic Sir Ector had a keen eye for economic development in the discussion
Literature and Economics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoBy coincidence, I wrote this blog post a week before the HC algorithm told me about this group and invited me to join it. Kay the Seneschal
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Joe Hoffman posted an update on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months ago
This summer was the first time I’ve ever presented a conference paper that involved no mathematics.
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Joe Hoffman deposited Boundaries of the Future in Two William Gibson Novels on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months ago
Actuality is a border between the world that is and the future worlds that could be. Science- fiction stories look across the border, into the frontiers of ‘the future’. William Gibson did his part in the 1980s to invent cyberpunk fiction as a slick, stylish view into a bleak dystopian future, but by the turn of the century, much of what he’d…[Read more]
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Joe Hoffman replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThis may sound weird, but the only SF work I can think of in which a map drives the action is Starman Jones. Maps are a much bigger deal in fantasy.
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Joe Hoffman posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
I loved the notification e-mail, informing me that you’d deposited a gold coin.
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Joe Hoffman posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
Well, I just learned a new word. Good way to start the day.
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Joe Hoffman posted an update in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoIf you haven’t been following Neville Morley at https://thesphinxblog.com/ , this is just to let you know that he’s been on a roll lately.
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Geographic distributions of names can be relatively static over many generations. This paper applies a mapping of English names to places in Great Britain to extract implicit correspondences between the names of hobbit families and their roles in The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien is found to have used family names that predominate near his…[Read more]
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Joe Hoffman changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month ago
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Joe Hoffman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month ago