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Language and Narrative as supreme mental technologies
Sitehttps://toryanderson.com
in case anyone was wondering, #TSA are my initials, hence #TSA_blogs #TSA_harmony #TSA_tech #TSA_ling #TSA_games
Since Bluehost cancelled my deal with them (an Alumni special from back when Bluehost was US owned and a proper company, before it's current gargantuan outsourced-everything state), I realized that I can use Mastodon as my blogging solution. Hence some long posts now and in the future. #TSA_ling #blogs
Since Bluehost cancelled my deal with them (an Alumni special from back when Bluehost was US owned and a proper company, before it's current gargantuan outsourced-everything state), I realized that I can use Mastodon as my blogging solution. Hence some long posts now and in the future. #TSA_Tech #blogs
How Understanding Writer's Intent and Story Enhance Your Script Analysis Skills - Casting Frontier

Holding a script that you haven’t correctly analyzed is like navigating with the wrong map. Here's how to analyze scripts to become a better actor.

Casting Frontier
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.

Major platforms seek mutually reinforcing convenience and security.

The CyberWire
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

Poet-Monks by Thomas J. Mazanec | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative...

Cornell University Press
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/
Love in simplified Chinese is without a heart

By Devdutt Pattanaik In China, there are many dialects and a lot of diversity; however, everyone is united by the use of the single script. You can read the same script, in different languages but...

Economic Times Blog