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Just arrived at IEEE CyberHumanities. I'll be presenting our progress in evaluating the historical adequacy of #maskedLanguageModels. Our case study is on #earlyModernEnglish. Let me know if you're in Florence for a chat. www.ieee-ch.org #CyberHumanities #IEEECH25
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Just arrived at IEEE CyberHumanities. I'll be presenting our progress in evaluating the historical adequacy of #maskedLanguageModels. Our case study is on #earlyModernEnglish. Let me know if you're in Florence for a chat. www.ieee-ch.org #CyberHumanities #IEEECH25
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Since my Leipzig @unileipzig literary studies colleague Ralf Haekel will give a talk on "Freiheit und Ambiguität" in Milton's Paradise Lost (https://home.uni-leipzig.de/griese/ringvorlesung.html), I finally got around to reading it. Somehow so far most satisfying: first time that I am consciously reading "dint" with a clear meaning of its own.
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Since my Leipzig @unileipzig literary studies colleague Ralf Haekel will give a talk on "Freiheit und Ambiguität" in Milton's Paradise Lost (https://home.uni-leipzig.de/griese/ringvorlesung.html), I finally got around to reading it. Somehow so far most satisfying: first time that I am consciously reading "dint" with a clear meaning of its own.
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⟨u⟩ and ⟨v⟩ were not considered two distinct letters then but as still different forms of the same letter. Typographically, ⟨v⟩ was frequent at the start of a word and ⟨u⟩ elsewhere: hence vnmoued (for modern unmoved) and loue (for love). The modern convention of using ⟨u⟩ for the vowel sounds and ⟨v⟩ for the consonant appears to have been introduced in the 1630s. Also, ⟨w⟩ was frequently represented by ⟨vv⟩.
Source: Wikipedia
https://using-archaic-words.isbrill.com/history/u-and-v-were-the-same-thing/
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Early Modern English had some great words that are still fun to use today. Here is a table of the pronouns from that period and how, when, and where to correctly use them.
NominativeObliqueGenitivePossessive1st personsingularImemy/mineminepluralweusourours2nd personsingular informalthoutheethy/thinethinesingular formalye, youyouyouryoursplural3rd personsingularhe/she/ithim/her/ithis/her/his (it)his/hers/hispluraltheythemtheirtheirsTable of words from Wikipedia’s Early Modern English articlehttps://using-archaic-words.isbrill.com/common/personal-pronouns-in-early-modern-english/
#commonlyMissunderstood #EarlyModernEnglish #KingJames #pronouns #Shakespeare
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Niche pre-Xmas request: are there any early modern English scholars out there? My son needs to find a (fairly small) corpus of EME text for his third-year project in computer science, to improve auto-parsing of text despite spelling variations in old English. Boosts welcome! #EarlyModernEnglish #ComputerScience #EnglishLanguage
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Niche pre-Xmas request: are there any early modern English scholars out there? My son needs to find a (fairly small) corpus of EME text for his third-year project in computer science, to improve auto-parsing of text despite spelling variations in old English. Boosts welcome! #EarlyModernEnglish #ComputerScience #EnglishLanguage