(May 3, 2023 at 8:09 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(May 2, 2023 at 6:03 pm)Angrboda Wrote: A poor workman blames his tools.
I simply don't see how I can write an interesting paper about a long but morphologically transparent placename in Ireland. My latest paper is about the idea that that k-r that repeats in the Croatian river names (Krka, Korana, Krbavica, Krapina, Karašica (2x) and Kravarščica) was the Illyrian word for "to flow", and you can easily write a 13-pages-long paper about that that's almost guaranteed to get published, especially if you apply some informatics (collision entropy and birthday calculations).
Why should that trouble you? You have yet to write an interesting paper about the names of Croatian rivers.
Boru
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