Re: Chinese & Maya writing systems

From: Harlan Messinger (h.messinger_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:42:15 -0400

"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.

>
> 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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