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No one ever had a better writing system than the Mayans
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:15 PM Author: Provocative regret because their alphabet looks like little cartoon characters, and each writer developed their own style, so that you could tell who wrote what just be looking at the way the characters were drawn. This also gave the language another dimension, because an author's artistic choices often reflected something about the point he was trying to make.
Because of this, we are able to track debates between various Mayan authors. We can see what viewpoints were being expressed using various artistic styles and sort the authors accordingly, without knowing who the authors were or even their names. |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:17 PM Author: Glassy Legend Set my first weeks on xo everyone seemed to be pumos, yet everyone knew exactly who was behind each post, and would call each other out.
it baffled and seduced me
this is not to mention the acronyms, which in those days were as common as regular language |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:19 PM Author: Provocative regret Now imagine each pumo used a unique font. You'd have no trouble following the discussion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008752) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 9:01 PM Author: filthy house-broken pisswyrm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49010156) |
Date: June 12th, 2025 2:17 PM Author: Provocative regret A Spanish dood burned all their books one day, but this scrap survived:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Detail_of_Codex_Dresdensis_drawn_by_Lacambalam.jpg |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:39 PM Author: Razzle rigor easily one of the dumbest, most tragic events in human history. i understand taking them away, but send that shit back to spain why in the world would you burn it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008824) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:40 PM Author: Hairless obsidian kitty nursing home Why wouldn’t you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008833) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:42 PM Author: Razzle rigor historical importance aside, to do some recon on the civilization you just took control of. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008843) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:43 PM Author: Hairless obsidian kitty nursing home It was a bunch of bone in nose niggers eating each other. Nothing of value was lost. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008850) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:44 PM Author: Provocative regret That's why the Dresden Codex has no value. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008855) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:53 PM Author: Flirting rigpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008905) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:44 PM Author: Razzle rigor bone in nose niggers precisely calculating the movements of the universe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008857) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:45 PM Author: Hairless obsidian kitty nursing home You only think this because you watched some goofy kike’s pop history “short” on YouTube. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008862) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:54 PM Author: Provocative regret Guess the museum:
https://i.imgur.com/aU52Bqx.jpeg |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:50 PM Author: Titillating Turquoise Gas Station Laser Beams they were conquistadors, not historians.
at the time egyptian artifacts were just sitting around and people didn't become interested in collecting them for hundreds of years later. the concept of preserving ancient civilizations was not widespread, and certainly not something they would have invested in across the ocean. and it's not like it was necessary to do any recon nor did they care to: they wanted to enslave and conquer, not learn about quetzalcoatl.
it's tragic but not at all surprising. |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:43 PM Author: Provocative regret You don't even know why he burned them. You're just guessing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008847) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:43 PM Author: Hairless obsidian kitty nursing home You’re jewish. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008853) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:44 PM Author: Provocative regret I'm Chinese (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008858) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:40 PM Author: Provocative regret cr.
But ironically, it's also the only reason we can read Mayan today. The same spaniard forced a slave to translate some shit from spanish into Mayan, and 500 years later a Russian scientist used that sample to decipher the entire Mayan script. |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:30 PM Author: Titillating Turquoise Gas Station Laser Beams yeah because its impossible to recognize a persons handwriting using a system of uniform characters rather than doodles. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008782) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:33 PM Author: Provocative regret Go ahead and try (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008800) |
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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:54 PM Author: Onyx Heady Home comic strips in the fucking newspaper do this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008915) |