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Also, I've not read Wittgenstein.
fair nuff
it's the only worthwhile language guy I've encountered
MMmm.
Linguists tend to be fairly crazy people.
He was worse then that. A logician^^
Wittgenstein's work is like getting a peak behind the matrix
he was getting at a lot of fundamental things we don't normally see
Noam Chomsky, Robin Lakoff, Dale Spender... Linguistics is insane...
It;s not linguistics
it;s philosophy of language
I was following up on something I said earlier.
noam chomsky gets so much praise for his pre grammar ideas, but wittgenstein beat him to the punch and had a more profound insight
Hmmm... I'll put him on my 'To Read' list.
well, he changes his mind on key stuff
but you should look up the Beetle in the Box thought experiment
that he had
it's a good window into what hes interested in
Here's something I'm reading right now.
Analysis of Norse myth. Specifically, the parallels between the Hrolf Kraki legends and Beowulf. Very well researched. Worth a read.
I'm fully immersed in local geopol and political history shit rn
in terms of reading
looking at lots of maps
and whatnot
Right now, I'm listening to a debate between Boris Johnson and Mary Beard, on Greece v Rome. It's glorious.
lol
i listened to that a long time ago
imagine being called "Beard" and being a woman
sad times
she came out defending that bbc black roman cartoon
lmfao
*Sigh*
she seems respected as a historian, but ive always noticed a kind of wishful thinking on her part
like she emphasizes the things she wants to be true
in these cases Rome's multicultural aspects
She has excellent knowledge of history, but yes, she does have quite a strong bias.
and suddenly that turns into, its entirely possibly for there to be a family of african romans in britain
so common it warrants this depiction on the bbc
it's not impossible
but the possibility is not the point here