RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions
January 21, 2024 at 4:13 pm
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2024 at 4:14 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(January 21, 2024 at 12:41 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(January 20, 2024 at 12:59 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: The long winded walls of text.
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
Thomas Jefferson.
OK, let me try to summarize it even more: I think that I've calculated, using birthday calculations and collision entropy, that the probability of that k-r pattern in Croatian river names (Krka, Korana, Krapina, Krbavica, Kravarščica, 2*Karašica) occurring by chance is somewhere between 1/300 and 1/17.
The fact that the chances are slight that a collection of names apparently bear some common characteristics by pure coincidence doesn’t illuminate why they seem to bear these characteristics. Hypothetically, let’s say some big wig had a speech impediment so everything he says sounds like it starts with a k.