I'm in awe right now, but I need some advice. For several years, I've been seeking the book that Beau Brummell used to learn Latin. I know it was Introduction to the Latin Tongue for the use of Youth. There were many different editions, including The famous, but later, Eton Latin Grammar. He attended Eton from 1786 to 1794. I have a digital copy of one published in 1795, wich fits the timeframe perfectly, but it's a mess when trying to read the "full text" with NVDA (my screen reader) or to convert the pdf to text. Likewise, I have one from about 1824-5 that is a reprint of 1795, and though it's a bit clearer, it's still full of errors. The hard copy reprints I've found are all pictures of the originals, not cleanly retyped. Just now, I found an original 1824 edition, and it's in clean condition! I'm quite afraid, because I am totally blind, and in order to read it, I must hold it and turn the pages so that my software can scan it! I can either use my ArX Vision, which I wear on my head, or my Pearl Document Scanning Camera with Openbook. Either way, I would be touching a book tha
... Show more...I'm in awe right now, but I need some advice. For several years, I've been seeking the book that Beau Brummell used to learn Latin. I know it was Introduction to the Latin Tongue for the use of Youth. There were many different editions, including The famous, but later, Eton Latin Grammar. He attended Eton from 1786 to 1794. I have a digital copy of one published in 1795, wich fits the timeframe perfectly, but it's a mess when trying to read the "full text" with NVDA (my screen reader) or to convert the pdf to text. Likewise, I have one from about 1824-5 that is a reprint of 1795, and though it's a bit clearer, it's still full of errors. The hard copy reprints I've found are all pictures of the originals, not cleanly retyped. Just now, I found an original 1824 edition, and it's in clean condition! I'm quite afraid, because I am totally blind, and in order to read it, I must hold it and turn the pages so that my software can scan it! I can either use my ArX Vision, which I wear on my head, or my Pearl Document Scanning Camera with Openbook. Either way, I would be touching a book that's 200 years old! However, no one seems to have a modern copy that is retyped. All are just pictures of old editions, and when I try to convert the pdfs to txt, or to read the pre-made html versions (all at the Internet Archive), they are full of errors! This would be fine in English, but I'm using the book to learn Latin!
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As a side note, here is my post in which I explain my search for a Latin tutor. I have not yet found one. If you think you can help me, please read said post before simply writing that you are a tutor. I am not using modern methods or pronunciation.
dandylover1.dreamwidth.org/768…
Finally, this is the syllabus for the pre-1868 Eton College curriculum that I created after a lot of research. It includes links to the books I plan to use, as well as extras.
dandylover1.dreamwidth.org/994…
#BeauBrummell #books #Brummell #classicaleducation #education #Eton #EtonCollege #Language #Latin #Learning #nineteenthcentury #syllabus #TraditionalEnglishPronunciation #teacher #tutor
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in reply to jmcnaughton • • •Alt text is also very useful for those on low-bandwidth internet connections (which can be any of us during an outage).
Mastodon is very robust under low-bandwidth conditions, in part because it loads text (including alt text) first, and images last (or never, if the link is really slow).
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in reply to jmcnaughton • • •Below a certain bandwidth, it displays the alt text instead of the image, and you have to click on the blurry rectangle for it to (attempt to) download the image.
By doing this sort of graceful degradation, the Fediverse keeps on working when all the commercial websites won't even load.
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If I see a post without alt text that I really want to boost I will write alt text in a reply first and then boost it. I can't always do that though, so I don't always boost.
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in reply to jmcnaughton • • •Related to this, good hashtags to know are alt4you and alt4me (not actually including the # so it doesn't take up space in a working hashtag). Sometimes there are good reasons why someone doesn't include alt text (often due to their own accessibility issues), but since it can be edited in after posting, including the alt4me hashtag can let people know that you can't write your alt text (for whatever the reason), but would appreciate someone helping out and providing one you can copy and paste in with an edit.
Working together, we can make Fedi more inclusive of everyone.
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