Message from @Doom

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2019-08-12 02:35:06 UTC  

Not German. Simple.

2019-08-12 02:35:22 UTC  

Also, I've not read Wittgenstein.

2019-08-12 02:35:32 UTC  

fair nuff

2019-08-12 02:35:55 UTC  

it's the only worthwhile language guy I've encountered

2019-08-12 02:36:08 UTC  

MMmm.

2019-08-12 02:36:24 UTC  

Linguists tend to be fairly crazy people.

2019-08-12 02:36:42 UTC  

He was worse then that. A logician^^

2019-08-12 02:36:56 UTC  

Wittgenstein's work is like getting a peak behind the matrix

2019-08-12 02:37:11 UTC  

he was getting at a lot of fundamental things we don't normally see

2019-08-12 02:37:32 UTC  

Noam Chomsky, Robin Lakoff, Dale Spender... Linguistics is insane...

2019-08-12 02:37:42 UTC  

It;s not linguistics

2019-08-12 02:37:48 UTC  

it;s philosophy of language

2019-08-12 02:38:12 UTC  

I was following up on something I said earlier.

2019-08-12 02:38:21 UTC  

noam chomsky gets so much praise for his pre grammar ideas, but wittgenstein beat him to the punch and had a more profound insight

2019-08-12 02:39:20 UTC  

Hmmm... I'll put him on my 'To Read' list.

2019-08-12 02:39:33 UTC  

well, he changes his mind on key stuff

2019-08-12 02:39:53 UTC  

but you should look up the Beetle in the Box thought experiment

2019-08-12 02:39:56 UTC  

that he had

2019-08-12 02:40:03 UTC  

it's a good window into what hes interested in

2019-08-12 02:40:51 UTC  

Here's something I'm reading right now.

2019-08-12 02:42:51 UTC  

Analysis of Norse myth. Specifically, the parallels between the Hrolf Kraki legends and Beowulf. Very well researched. Worth a read.

2019-08-12 02:46:08 UTC  

I'm fully immersed in local geopol and political history shit rn

2019-08-12 02:46:15 UTC  

in terms of reading

2019-08-12 02:46:44 UTC  

looking at lots of maps

2019-08-12 02:46:49 UTC  

and whatnot

2019-08-12 02:47:08 UTC  

Right now, I'm listening to a debate between Boris Johnson and Mary Beard, on Greece v Rome. It's glorious.

2019-08-12 02:47:17 UTC  

lol

2019-08-12 02:47:30 UTC  

i listened to that a long time ago

2019-08-12 02:47:35 UTC  

imagine being called "Beard" and being a woman

2019-08-12 02:47:37 UTC  

sad times

2019-08-12 02:47:46 UTC  

she came out defending that bbc black roman cartoon

2019-08-12 02:47:57 UTC  

lmfao

2019-08-12 02:48:04 UTC  

*Sigh*

2019-08-12 02:48:30 UTC  

she seems respected as a historian, but ive always noticed a kind of wishful thinking on her part

2019-08-12 02:48:37 UTC  

like she emphasizes the things she wants to be true

2019-08-12 02:48:46 UTC  

in these cases Rome's multicultural aspects

2019-08-12 02:49:07 UTC  

She has excellent knowledge of history, but yes, she does have quite a strong bias.

2019-08-12 02:49:24 UTC  

and suddenly that turns into, its entirely possibly for there to be a family of african romans in britain

2019-08-12 02:49:41 UTC  

so common it warrants this depiction on the bbc

2019-08-12 02:49:41 UTC  

it's not impossible