(May 3, 2023 at 7:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 3, 2023 at 7:31 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Of course. The vast majority of published papers are bloody boring. The vast majority of published papers are not interdisciplinary, they are using some established boring methodology and they are generally finding nothing new. They are way more boring than my latest paper.
That’s my point. If you can write a mind-numbingly boring paper about Croatian river names, you should be able to write an equally boring paper about the names of Irish townlands.
Don’t sell yourself short - I’m sure you can be achingly dull on a number of topics.
Boru
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.