Eric Sowell

Teacher/tutor in Greek, Latin, history, Bible, and programming. Software developer. Director of Consulting at Improving.

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I'm starting a new in-person Greek class in N Dallas. If you're interested, here's more info: https://t.co/gjPNbvtfcL

[Eric Sowell @Mallioch]

Read Greek? Check out Ὁ ἐπὶ Τροίᾱν Πόλεμος. It's a fun little Greek novella. https://t.co/W8XDCxRLDU

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I had a wonderful time at the @polisjerusalem Dallas program this summer. I just posted about it on my blog.

https://t.co/b5xxjSEF2z

Thanks to @ricochristophe1 @ScorpioMartian @MagisterMeletus and Erik Ellis (not on X?) for putting it on.

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If you're going to dig into the world of second-language acquisition, you need to wrestle with Stephen Krashen's ideas. If you want to understand them better, here are his five hypotheses in brief.

https://t.co/YS75U7Rk2u

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Doing some L2 acquisition reading on vocabulary learning. I've my own favorite outside-the-classroom learning activities, but I'm reading to improve practices for myself and others. This last week's reading was from a relevant 2011 paper. https://t.co/zDtStD9O44

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Assisted or unassisted reading? To listen to audio when you read a foreign language text or not to listen, that is the question. But what's the answer? https://t.co/Bvyy3BWhLQ

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Started a new project a couple months ago. It's time to start talking about it. https://t.co/nkpkhqadRE. More text week.

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I shouldn’t have waited so long to get a book stand.

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Today was the final meeting for my @CatherineProj group working through Aristotle's Metaphysics. It's a tough book, and reading it with a group helps. The group was a blessing and a gift.

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Loved this one. Fun, hilariously critical, weird, and insightful. What a classic.

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My best guess is that I’ve had this about 14 years. Finally had to resort to tape.

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@davidmohara @Grammarly I hope you’re not bothered if I call you a word nerd in the office

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This was very good. If you’re interested in either TX/OK history or the Comanche, I highly recommended it.

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Just for fun, today I checked to see if Chatgpt could transcribe some Migne for me. Very cool, but note the hallucination at the end. Untrustworthy but useful.

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@RedemTheTimes Only if you can thread them together as a conversation. If it's just 12 disconnected studies, then I don't see how doing it as a book versus various disconnected formats is useful.

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Though not my usual type of reading, I loved it.

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@BanjoAtheist @BMcGrewvy This is a reasonably funny troll

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@theancientlang This wasn't obvious, so I thought I would share. Some sections provided in the selection are truncated compared to what's in Migne. Would be fun piece to read.

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@theancientlang Just as an FYI for anyone who wants to know, I found the Latin for this. The selection for this in Gamble (and in Painter, from whom they took it) is at the beginning of Book 3 of his De Clericorum Institutione Ad Heistulphum Archiepiscopum Libri Tres. https://t.co/2VlnoJgIzf