Re: Mayan numerals

--- 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