--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Marco
Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@...>
wrote:
> > > >The 'tourism-inspired'
> > > > allegation, apart from being
> > > >unproven/unprovable, is
unfair
> > > > and highly 'loaded.'
> > >
> > > That statement is unfair and
> > > highly 'loaded'.
> > >
> > Agreed, but on the basis that
any
> > indication of a 'loaded
statement'
> > will, of necessity, itself be
> > loaded; and 'unfair,' on the
basis,
> > referred to earlier, that
tourism is
> > not necessarily stigmatised in
that
> > way.
>
> Excuse me, but this whole
discussion seems loaded with a bit
of nonsense.
>
> That mysterious anthropologist
>
>
I thought he was an 'archaeologist?'
>
>
told me that HE GUESSED that those
Maya
> numerals were more likely
decorative elements inspired from
the nearby
> archaeological remains, rather
than a numbering system used for any
> practical purpose.
>
> There is no theory, no hidden
agenda,
>
>
No one said there was.
>
>
no loaded statement, no
stigmatization
> of anything and anybody. The
conversation occurred more than two
years ago,
> and I am not even sure that the
guy actually mentioned tourists or
used
> different wording.
>
>
Don't worry.
>
>
> I mentioned this only because
somebody on this list was present
when I asked
> the question the first time, so
they might have asked: you already
were
> answered on this, why asking
again?
>
>
?(!).
>
R