Names of places in Croatia

[FlatAssembler]

None of those scholars told me my work was "uninteresting trash". Not even the most insightful works about Croatian names of places get printed in English, why would they? Katičić published a few works about names of places on islands of the Adriatic sea in Italian, because he thought it might be interesting to Italian audience. Mayer published some things (I believe about the name of the river Mura) about Croatian names of places in German, because he intended to reach Austrian audience. But none of them, as far as I know, even tried to publish in English.

Do you know how many croatian members AF has?

No.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Do you know how many croatian members AF has?

No.

Hint: Less than 2.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I have a new theory about Croatian place names.

Prior to WWII, places in Croatia had no names - people would just say things like, 'That town over there', etc. As part of the Marshall Plan, however, people from all over Europe were encouraged to submit random strings of letters to be considered as names. These were carefully picked over by a highly qualified team of rabies-infected weasels, who would choose names via the tried-and-true method of pooping on some of them. The select pooped-on names would then be assigned to various towns, cities, mountains, rivers and Apple Genius stores in war torn Croatia (this part of the process was personally overseen by an inebriated Winston Churchill, which explains a lot). Anyone who submitted a name that was eventually chosen was given their choice of either six chocolate bars or a packet of Russian 'Trud' cigarettes.

Boru

[FlatAssembler]

No.

Hint: Less than 2.

Boru

How do you know?
Oh, I forgot to mention: Krahe was writing something about Croatian names of places (as a part of his theory about Old European Hidronimy) in German, even though he was not Croatian at all. The Polish linguist Pokorny also cited some ancient Croatian placenames in his German-language dictionary of Indo-European. Still, none of them were writing about it in English.

[FlatAssembler]

I have a new theory about Croatian place names.

Prior to WWII, places in Croatia had no names - people would just say things like, 'That town over there', etc. As part of the Marshall Plan, however, people from all over Europe were encouraged to submit random strings of letters to be considered as names. These were carefully picked over by a highly qualified team of rabies-infected weasels, who would choose names via the tried-and-true method of pooping on some of them. The select pooped-on names would then be assigned to various towns, cities, mountains, rivers and Apple Genius stores in war torn Croatia (this part of the process was personally overseen by an inebriated Winston Churchill, which explains a lot). Anyone who submitted a name that was eventually chosen was given their choice of either six chocolate bars or a packet of Russian 'Trud' cigarettes.

Boru

So, you think ancient historical sources which mention Croatian names of places are fake? That Pliny didn't really write "Contra Iader est Lissa." ("Iader" being the ancient name for Zadar and "Lissa" presumably being the ancient name for Ugljan), that Strabo didn't really attempt to etymologize Croatian island names Issa (ancient name for Vis) as being related to the placename Antissa on the Greek island of Lesbos and Pharos (the ancient name for Hvar) as being related to Greek island name Paros...? That this is all post-World-War-2 fabrication? At all libraries world-wide that have copies of Strabo's and Pliny's works? And that Mayer's work from 1930s is also post-World-War-2 fabrication? Sounds highly implausible to me.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Hint: Less than 2.

Boru

How do you know?
Oh, I forgot to mention: Krahe was writing something about Croatian names of places (as a part of his theory about Old European Hidronimy) in German, even though he was not Croatian at all. The Polish linguist Pokorny also cited some ancient Croatian placenames in his German-language dictionary of Indo-European. Still, none of them were writing about it in English.

(Bold mine)

The same way I know that we have no members from Fiji or Vatican City.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I have a new theory about Croatian place names.

Prior to WWII, places in Croatia had no names - people would just say things like, 'That town over there', etc. As part of the Marshall Plan, however, people from all over Europe were encouraged to submit random strings of letters to be considered as names. These were carefully picked over by a highly qualified team of rabies-infected weasels, who would choose names via the tried-and-true method of pooping on some of them. The select pooped-on names would then be assigned to various towns, cities, mountains, rivers and Apple Genius stores in war torn Croatia (this part of the process was personally overseen by an inebriated Winston Churchill, which explains a lot). Anyone who submitted a name that was eventually chosen was given their choice of either six chocolate bars or a packet of Russian 'Trud' cigarettes.

Boru

So, you think ancient historical sources which mention Croatian names of places are fake? That Pliny didn't really write "Contra Iader est Lissa." ("Iader" being the ancient name for Zadar and "Lissa" presumably being the ancient name for Ugljan), that Strabo didn't really attempt to etymologize Croatian island names Issa (ancient name for Vis) as being related to the placename Antissa on the Greek island of Lesbos and Pharos (the ancient name for Hvar) as being related to Greek island name Paros...? That this is all post-World-War-2 fabrication? At all libraries world-wide that have copies of Strabo's and Pliny's works? And that Mayer's work from 1930s is also post-World-War-2 fabrication?

All the sources you mention are part of a vast conspiracy designed to make you think that Croatian place names are ancient. Even the very first emperor of Croatia (Vlakschmeer The Easily Amused) had no idea where he was from. Why? No place names.

Boru

[FlatAssembler]

How do you know?
Oh, I forgot to mention: Krahe was writing something about Croatian names of places (as a part of his theory about Old European Hidronimy) in German, even though he was not Croatian at all. The Polish linguist Pokorny also cited some ancient Croatian placenames in his German-language dictionary of Indo-European. Still, none of them were writing about it in English.

(Bold mine)

The same way I know that we have no members from Fiji or Vatican City.

Boru

Well, people from Vatican City are all devout Christians, so it is to be assumed none of them would join Atheist Forums. I don't see how you can guess how many people we have from Fiji or Croatia, though.

[FlatAssembler]

So, you think ancient historical sources which mention Croatian names of places are fake? That Pliny didn't really write "Contra Iader est Lissa." ("Iader" being the ancient name for Zadar and "Lissa" presumably being the ancient name for Ugljan), that Strabo didn't really attempt to etymologize Croatian island names Issa (ancient name for Vis) as being related to the placename Antissa on the Greek island of Lesbos and Pharos (the ancient name for Hvar) as being related to Greek island name Paros...? That this is all post-World-War-2 fabrication? At all libraries world-wide that have copies of Strabo's and Pliny's works? And that Mayer's work from 1930s is also post-World-War-2 fabrication?

All the sources you mention are part of a vast conspiracy designed to make you think that Croatian place names are ancient. Even the very first emperor of Croatia (Vlakschmeer The Easily Amused) had no idea where he was from. Why? No place names.

Boru

Never heard of Vlakschmeer, nor that Croatia ever had an emperor. You are probably confusing Croatia with some other country.

[arewethereyet]

If you come up with some information on the Croatoans and the Lost Colony, I might listen.