(March 31, 2023 at 9:39 am)polymath257 Wrote:

(March 30, 2023 at 10:14 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Of course, whether or not Illyrian is a centum language is not the main topic of that paper. The main topic is the idea that the Croatian river names that start with k-r are etymologically related.

And, what, three people in the world are interested and one of them says this is BS?

Well, my perception is that quite a few people are interested in the names of places. Almost every monography of some place starts with a (often obviously wrong) speculation about what the name of that place means.
What is rare, though, are people attempting to study that topic systematically.

(March 31, 2023 at 10:32 am)emjay Wrote:

(March 29, 2023 at 10:56 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: You miss my point. I don’t care about your paper at all. I don’t care about the details or the conclusion. I don’t care about your p-values or place names in Croatia. I don’t care that you were published or that you’ve found a handful of people who agree with you. I don’t care if your conclusions are right, wrong, or somewhere in between.

I. Don’t. Care.

Boru

I don't know if this is inappropriate, and if it is I apologise to FlatAssembler for bringing it up (and also, to be clear, I'm not attacking you here, just bringing this up because it seems relevant), but then many in my life have suggested I may also be on the Autistic/Asperger's spectrum albeit "high functioning" (though never diagnosed), but it seems to me that this could be related to that. Ie a) obsessive interest in often niche subjects, and b) a common trait of Autism apparently being to have variable levels of difficulty understanding other people's perspectives etc, due to deficits in creating a 'theory of mind' of others' mental states, including their levels of interest etc.

In my own case I'm sure you've read my walls of text and thought either 'what a load of bollocks' and/or 'no one cares' (not just you, I mean anyone... and not necessarily about everything I write but at least some), and the extent that I can theorise that that's what you do or might think speaks to my ability to create 'theories of mind'... which overall seems pretty good or at least adequate (which might equate to 'high functioning'), but nonetheless I do think I still have deficits in that area, often - due to a certain rigidness in my thinking - assuming interest and/or understanding that probably in many cases isn't there.

Well, I am diagnozed with a psychotic disorder. And I am taking Risperidone against hallucinations, Biperiden against shaky hands and Alprazolam against panic attacks. I fail to see how it can be related to my interest in the names of places, though.

(March 31, 2023 at 1:51 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:

(March 31, 2023 at 10:32 am)emjay Wrote: I don't know if this is inappropriate, and if it is I apologise to FlatAssembler for bringing it up (and also, to be clear, I'm not attacking you here, just bringing this up because it seems relevant), but then many in my life have suggested I may also be on the Autistic/Asperger's spectrum albeit "high functioning" (though never diagnosed), but it seems to me that this could be related to that. Ie a) obsessive interest in often niche subjects, and b) a common trait of Autism apparently being to have variable levels of difficulty understanding other people's perspectives etc, due to deficits in creating a 'theory of mind' of others' mental states, including their levels of interest etc.

In my own case I'm sure you've read my walls of text and thought either 'what a load of bollocks' and/or 'no one cares' (not just you, I mean anyone... and not necessarily about everything I write but at least some), and the extent that I can theorise that that's what you do or might think speaks to my ability to create 'theories of mind'... which overall seems pretty good or at least adequate (which might equate to 'high functioning'), but nonetheless I do think I still have deficits in that area, often - due to a certain rigidness in my thinking - assuming interest and/or understanding that probably in many cases isn't there.

Well, I am diagnozed with a psychotic disorder. And I am taking Risperidone against hallucinations, Biperiden against shaky hands and Alprazolam against panic attacks. I fail to see how it can be related to my interest in the names of places, though.

It isn't. I just wondered if you were on the autistic spectrum was all, but it was not my place to ask or suggest, so I'm sorry I brought it up.

Diagnoziz: Armed and Dangeroose.

(March 31, 2023 at 2:30 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Diagnoziz: Armed and Dangeroose.

If that's aimed at me then consider me schooled (not just by this but by all of this). I thought it might help, but no, bad call I think posting in this thread, I regret it already.

(March 31, 2023 at 2:43 pm)emjay Wrote:

(March 31, 2023 at 2:30 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Diagnoziz:  Armed and Dangeroose.

If that's aimed at me then consider me schooled (not just by this but by all of this). I thought it might help, but no, bad call I think posting in this thread, I regret it already.

Ok, just to be clear; I don't think you made a mistake in posting what you did. For the purposes of my comment, it really, truly doesn't matter if Flat is on the spectrum or not. Either way, I would have no interest in the topic of his paper. That's me, not him.

Boru

(March 31, 2023 at 2:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(March 31, 2023 at 2:43 pm)emjay Wrote: If that's aimed at me then consider me schooled (not just by this but by all of this). I thought it might help, but no, bad call I think posting in this thread, I regret it already.

Ok, just to be clear; I don't think you made a mistake in posting what you did. For the purposes of my comment, it really, truly doesn't matter if Flat is on the spectrum or not. Either way, I would have no interest in the topic of his paper. That's me, not him.

Boru

Yeah, no worries, I get what you're saying. My regret was for the general hornet's nest I might have unleashed here, not just our interaction, by bringing up autism in the first place, especially if the subject is, as it seems to be, unwelcome by FlatAssembler.

(March 31, 2023 at 2:43 pm)emjay Wrote:

(March 31, 2023 at 2:30 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Diagnoziz:  Armed and Dangeroose.

If that's aimed at me then consider me schooled (not just by this but by all of this). I thought it might help, but no, bad call I think posting in this thread, I regret it already.

It wasn't aimed at you.

(March 31, 2023 at 1:59 pm)emjay Wrote:

(March 31, 2023 at 1:51 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, I am diagnozed with a psychotic disorder. And I am taking Risperidone against hallucinations, Biperiden against shaky hands and Alprazolam against panic attacks. I fail to see how it can be related to my interest in the names of places, though.

It isn't. I just wondered if you were on the autistic spectrum was all, but it was not my place to ask or suggest, so I'm sorry I brought it up.

You seem a decent sort and I certainly don't see anything you said as being out of line.

Figuring out what makes Flat tick is part of letting him continue to rail about things like this and the danger of sesame seeds and I have erased most of the other topics from my mind.

Carry on - no harm, no foul.

(March 31, 2023 at 5:18 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(March 31, 2023 at 1:59 pm)emjay Wrote: It isn't. I just wondered if you were on the autistic spectrum was all, but it was not my place to ask or suggest, so I'm sorry I brought it up.

You seem a decent sort and I certainly don't see anything you said as being out of line.

Figuring out what makes Flat tick is part of letting him continue to rail about things like this and the danger of sesame seeds and I have erased most of the other topics from my mind.

Carry on - no harm, no foul.

Thanks, that's nice of you to say

The main thing is though, I didn't want to put him on the spot. So for instance I know a lot of people with Aspergers that are perfectly happy to talk about it, so I guess I was just kind of putting out the feelers to see if that or similar was the case here too, but since it doesn't seem to be the case, the last thing I want to do going forward is speculate about someone's mental state... that's not my place. Just as I wouldn't feel comfortable with others trying to psychoanalyse me without me being a willing participant in the conversation.