Re: Chinese & Maya writing systems

From: Yuri Kuchinsky (yuku_at_trends.ca)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:11:15 -0400

Harlan Messinger wrote:
>
> "Yuri Kuchinsky" <yuku@trends.ca> wrote in message
> news:412E2E99.A8B049A5@trends.ca...
> > Harlan Messinger wrote:
> > >
> > > Yuri Kuchinsky <yuku@trends.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >Some people here are interested in serious discussion,
> > > >rather than in juvenile attempts at humour.
> > >
> > > Every time someone tells you, seriously, why the relationships you see
> > > are bogus,
> >
> > I wasn't talking about the relationships. Rather, I was
> > talking about the similarities.
>
> Unless one is at least theorizing a relationship, why would it be
> interesting that there are similarities? Why would anyone bother to report
> it? Of course there are similarities--each language's consonantal inventory
> is only just so large, and we readily map consonants from one language to
> another. It's like walking into a room and seeing that the two other people
> in the room are both blond with blue eyes and tattoos, and getting excited
> about it, and running home and telling your family about it, and talking
> about it at work the next day--as though there are so many different eye and
> hair colors and so few people with tattoos that the presence in the same
> room of two blond, blue-eyed people with tattoos must have some deep
> significance.

All people are related in one way or another... And the
Native Americans are generally related to Asians. These
particular similarities may help to clarify such
relationships further.

Seems pretty obvious to me...

Yuri.

> > Obviously you don't have a clue what this conversation is
> > all about...
>
> I'm talking about *all* your conversations where you imagine relationships
> between words--or between artifacts, for that matter--based on superficial
> similarities.
>
> >
> > > you refuse to pay any heed, so what's the point be in
> > > trying to continue serious discussion with you?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Harlan Messinger
> > > Remove the first dot from my e-mail address.
> > > Veuillez ๔ter le premier point de mon adresse de courriel.
> >
> > Yuri.
> >
> > Yuri Kuchinsky -=O=- http://www.trends.ca/~yuku
> >
> > A great many people think they are thinking when they are
> > merely rearranging their prejudices -=O=- William James
> >

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