(May 4, 2023 at 4:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 4, 2023 at 1:49 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Why would my paper about Croatian river names be "mind-numbingly boring"? It is, unlike most papers about toponyms, interdisciplinary, it applies informatics (collision entropy and birthday calculations) to the toponyms, rather than just philology. It uses a radically different methodology from most papers about toponyms (though, in my opinion, it is my methodology that follows from mathematics and basic principles of historical linguistics, rather than the established methodology). And it also reaches a relatively radical conclusion.
Have you skimmed over the Dubravka Ivšić'es PhD thesis? That is mind-numbingly boring.
It is mind-numbingly boring because it’s about the origin of river names in Croatia, which is a mind-numbingly boring topic. If it was an interesting topic, Steven Spielberg would have made a film about it by now.
Boru
To me, Control Engineering is much more boring than the origin of river names.
