Re: Chinese & Maya writing systems

From: Michael Kuettner (miksbg_at_eunet.at)
Date: 08/29/04


Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 01:12:30 +0200


"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:413254A5.759C@worldnet.att.net...
> Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
>
> > > > The only point that I was trying to make so far is that
> > > > there seem to be some quite obvious similarities between the
> > > > Chinese and the Mayan writing systems.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe they are just surface similarities, but so what?
> > >
> > > If they're "just surface similarities," similar to every other writing
> > > system, there's nothing interesting about them at all.
> >
> > There seem to be more similarities between them than among
> > the other writing systems.
>
> You haven't named ANY features that are peculiar to Chinese and Maya
> writing.

After all those years you still expect something substantial from
Kookinsky ?
The mind boggles ... ;-)

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner



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