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RE: Names of places in Croatia
April 20, 2022 at 12:32 pm
At least you know what bar you were trying to clear. Good stuff.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
April 20, 2022 at 10:00 pm
(April 20, 2022 at 12:32 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: At least you know what bar you were trying to clear. Good stuff.
What does "what bar you were trying to clear" mean?
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
April 20, 2022 at 10:01 pm
I thought you were a master of linguistics.
It certainly doesn't show here.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
April 20, 2022 at 10:06 pm
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.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
April 20, 2022 at 10:07 pm
It's just the cherry on top when you explain to people who have no sense of humor.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
April 20, 2022 at 10:09 pm
Jokes are like genocide. Practice practice practice.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
April 21, 2022 at 3:03 am
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(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.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
May 10, 2022 at 11:33 am
(April 20, 2022 at 10:01 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I thought you were a master of linguistics.
It certainly doesn't show here. Well, no, I am a computer science student interested in linguistics. But do you know what exactly linguistics is? Because it is not quite the study of obscure English idioms.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
May 10, 2022 at 11:36 am
(May 10, 2022 at 11:33 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: (April 20, 2022 at 10:01 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I thought you were a master of linguistics.
It certainly doesn't show here. Well, no, I am a computer science student interested in linguistics. But do you know what exactly linguistics is? Because it is not quite the study of obscure English idioms.
It’s also not boring the life out of people by droning on and on about Croatian place names and Etruscan sentence structure.
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RE: Names of places in Croatia
May 10, 2022 at 11:37 am
(May 10, 2022 at 11:36 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (May 10, 2022 at 11:33 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, no, I am a computer science student interested in linguistics. But do you know what exactly linguistics is? Because it is not quite the study of obscure English idioms.
It’s also not boring the life out of people by droning on and on about Croatian place names and Etruscan sentence structure.
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