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！

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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...

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...

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-...

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!