SAH Commons | Joe Hoffman | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/joehoffman/activity/ Activity feed for Joe Hoffman. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:01:16 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2a1565c6f6d185b9db5f92ae0eeeb904 Joe Hoffman commented on the post, Become a KC Champion, on the site About Knowledge Commons https://about.hcommons.org/2026/01/26/become-a-kc-champion/#comment-92 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:31:22 -0500 If I was already sending you money every month, can I have a badge, too?

]]> a40cf7c0799d9012c3e44ef270ed54f9 Joe Hoffman's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1940822/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:16:04 -0500 0 69ddded3f32528557238cbc8b36a7638 Joe Hoffman replied to the topic CFP: Mathematical Humanists Summer Workshops in the discussion Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanists/forum/topic/cfp-mathematical-humanists-summer-workshops/#post-80590 Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:10:32 -0500 Graphs are fun! Application en route.

]]> 0 64941c72756f316413c0308fbc297ee2 Joe Hoffman posted a new activity comment https://team.hcommons.org/2021/08/25/misinformation-and-the-commons/#comment-8547 Wed, 25 Aug 2021 19:39:13 -0400 Concur. That outcome is depressingly probable.

In reply to - Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, Misinformation and the Commons, on the site Platypus My birthday fell earlier this week, and brought with it the usual delightful overflow of Facebook greetings. It was […] ]]> ee55874ab5738397aa9040797082241e Joe Hoffman posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713755/#acomment-1713782 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:59:29 -0400 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.

In reply to - Ronald Kyrmse deposited J.R.R. Tolkien Writing Tengwar in the group Tolkien Studies An analysis of Tolkien’s writing dynamics based on a video of him writing in tengwar ]]> 30fc0506fab3f0d5fdd0d68fecc104df Joe Hoffman's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674785/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 02:52:13 -0500 0 d880ade281dc64f6e303ed899e3289f6 Joe Hoffman replied to the topic Why do most academic publications not broaden knowledge? in the discussion Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanists/forum/topic/why-do-most-academic-publications-not-broaden-knowledge/#post-27973 Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:40:34 -0500 There 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]

]]> 0 312538b034abf61602c5b5614b867a67 Joe Hoffman started the topic Where hobbits live in Britain in the discussion Tolkien Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/tolkien-studies/forum/topic/where-hobbits-live-in-britain/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:43:56 -0400 A 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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]]> 0 b540f8ad35bb1540763b83f134ee8614 Joe Hoffman deposited Spell-checking "The Lord of the Rings" in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627445/ Sun, 30 Dec 2018 16:25:22 -0500 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]

]]> 0 000de043daede44848b97875e142b6c2 Joe Hoffman deposited Pronouncing Dictionary Supplement for "The Lord of the Rings" https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627398/ Sat, 29 Dec 2018 16:19:46 -0500 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.

]]> 0 95d5d05350675ca401be628b23cc197e Joe Hoffman deposited Spell-checking "The Lord of the Rings" https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627396/ Sat, 29 Dec 2018 15:33:35 -0500 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]

]]> 0 7965f35b69a99846b37ac45051e0998a Joe Hoffman started the topic Dictionary of English Etymology - is it online? in the discussion Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanists/forum/topic/dictionary-of-english-etymology-is-it-online/ Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:57:21 -0400 Google 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?

]]> 0 069c88f96a598000be0761fe757b90e1 Joe Hoffman deposited Boundaries of the Future in Two William Gibson Novels in the group Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1616348/ Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:27:27 -0400 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]

]]> 0 5393a98a5079b6c3b9c02e5abf3b320e Joe Hoffman started the topic Sir Ector had a keen eye for economic development in the discussion Literature and Economics https://hcommons.org/groups/literature-and-economics/forum/topic/sir-ector-had-a-keen-eye-for-economic-development/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 22:11:32 -0400 By 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

]]> 0 b10384b23429469faad7faa4814c5450 Joe Hoffman posted an update: This summer was the first time I've ever presented a […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1616257/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 22:06:56 -0400 This summer was the first time I’ve ever presented a conference paper that involved no mathematics.

]]> 0 db15f32a4e15a251b49a39bfe34c0c4d Joe Hoffman deposited Boundaries of the Future in Two William Gibson Novels https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1616255/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 21:52:46 -0400 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]

]]> 0 79a673c373c76eb6dfdec4b2eb1767c0 Joe Hoffman replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction - Research Recommendations in the discussion Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/groups/speculative-and-science-fiction/forum/topic/maps-and-speculative-fiction-research-recommendations/#post-14598 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 13:12:03 -0400 This 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.

]]> 0 3120f41dff5d9ebe4d27c4e7abf54900 Joe Hoffman posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1583730/#acomment-1583789 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:59:25 -0400 I loved the notification e-mail, informing me that you’d deposited a gold coin.

In reply to - Justin Walsh deposited A Silver Service and a Gold Coin in the group Ancient Greece & Rome The published history of a set of silver and gold objects acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1975 contains an unusual […] ]]> 7d791a8c6de89d704d06fe4058775250 Joe Hoffman posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567273/#acomment-1567282 Sat, 29 Apr 2017 11:56:59 -0400 Well, I just learned a new word. Good way to start the day.

In reply to - Sophia Booth Magnone deposited Microbial Zoopoetics in Octavia Butler’s Clay’s Ark in the group Speculative and Science Fiction This paper reads Octavia Butler’s 1984 novel Clay’s Ark as a speculative handboo […] ]]> d657a0a9b3d27cf077af8205ea381aa4 Joe Hoffman posted an update in the group Ancient Greece & Rome: If you haven't been following Neville Morley at […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1561247/ Sun, 05 Feb 2017 01:00:34 -0500 If 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.

]]> 0 77200fcf4943a721f180ea066ab07759 Joe Hoffman deposited Hobbits on the Map of Britain https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553612/ Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:49:01 -0500 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]

]]> 0 fd026db302abbe4cdde5eaa01a3d3bac Joe Hoffman changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553609/ Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:26:47 -0500 0 0ddb080702baeac048ba7e5d8461b690 Joe Hoffman's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553608/ Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:24:54 -0500 0