RE: Names of places in Croatia
April 21, 2022 at 3:03 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2022 at 3:06 am by FlatAssembler.)
(April 20, 2022 at 10:06 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's an idiom, in this instance, it expresses the observation that you set out to make your crackpot ideas look sciencey. It also leaves open room, for comedic effect, that this is all you were trying to do...look sciencey.
Jokes are always more funny when you have to explain them.
That was a video primarily about the idea that *karr~kurr meant "to flow" in Illyrian. I don't see how that's a "crackpot idea".
(April 20, 2022 at 10:01 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I thought you were a master of linguistics.
It certainly doesn't show here.
No, I am a third-year computer science student who had to take a break from studying because of his mental health problems. But I have published a few papers about linguistics.