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in a manuscript of jean de wavrin's "anciennes chroniques d'angleterre", flanders, c. 1470-90
source: Paris, BnF, Français 75, fol. 198r
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Shamelessly reblogging since all here stuck with me a lot
''Humanities are unnecesary and a burden in modern society!'' is a statement that will never be valid, at least not as long as we get takes as moronic as this one.
Losing my mind at this guy. Literally a google search away. They do not even try to hide it. And most people who see this, according to the numbers in the tweet, do agree!
But it gets worse.
Those dumb guys in the primitive americas did not know how to write. Wait, what? What's this?
Wait, what? A mayan king commemorating an HISTORICAL battle by using WRITTEN GLYPHS? B-but they have no sense of time or writting! That must be a fluke!
Mmmh? But...?
A stel portraying a maya queen, with again written symbols mentioning her directly?
''No, those don't count, they're just dumb short phrases, they are surely uncapable of writting down coherent tex-''
Wow, the Dresden Codex, dated from 11th century (mayans were not even at their peak here) writting down their religion, customs, different gods and even complex astronomical movements all-in-one!
Those stone age troglodytes were surely lucky to be able to keep time counts in the thousands of years!
Okay, you're right. Mentioning mayans is cheating because they do not use enough ''actual words'' only drawn ones!
Forget the fact they had a whole ass syllabic system, that experts have been deciphering for decades.
By this rule of thumb, the japanese are all illiterate because they do not actually use words, but abstractions in the form of syllabes. Maya greatest mistake was to do their particles too artistically or something.
The previous tweet implied there was going to be a threat debunking whatever rambling that person was on about, but it stopped there. So... okay.
Regarding the aztecs, that would actually be somewhat accurate. They relied mostly on ideographic writting, but they also combined syllabes. They were still developing their language independently of the mayans. The process was interrupted by the arrival of the spanish crown.
However the writting of the aztecs is stupid and primitive because it doesnt resemble my latin alphabet enough AAAAGH! With such underdeveloped writting they wouldn't be able to write texts, let alone make librar-
Someone else answered, and it's literally the first google result right now, putting this curious image.
I wonder what it's trying to convey.
Solved. It's not a library because... well it's not! It's made of stone and has stupid scribblings stored. It's a nu-library!
How are we going to tell Asurbanipal his assyrian library does not count because it's just not a library, because we need to dunk on the americas?
Forget the books. The real reason they're regressive is because they had no wheel.
They obviously relegated the wheel to toys, because after inventing, polishing it, even using it metaphorically in their intrincate calendars, they decided they didn't know how to use it beyond children toys. It was, again, a skill issue.
Regarding armor and weapons, did you know spanish conquistadores discarded their plate mails and used cotton armor from the natives, far better resistant to rust, and able to disperse slashing and piercing damage with comparable success? Far more comfortable, mobile, and less prone to well, cooking you alive.
How come, also, that Mayas and Aztecs knew each other? They lived in different zones of Mexico with frontiers separated by kilometers? Their trading routes (shared) must have been a stroke of dumb luck.
Apparently if you don't cross the whole ass Pacific/Atlantic Ocean, it does not count. By the way, did anyone in China, India, Africa, Europe or even Australia know about the Native Americans?
Conclussion: If you exclude Mayans, Aztecs, a myriad of other cultures in the Americas, their issolation to the rest of the continents, their set of beliefs, languages, structures, trade routes, traditions, libraries and use of the wheel among some other ''tiny'' advancements... well, you're right. They end being quite primitive.
I guess that's their fault. Maybe they should have conquered us first or some crap.
Those morons and their obscure scribblings.
PD: I excluded this person name in purpose. Do not send harassment to them. This generalized ignorance of America cultures does not radiate from a single person, instead is a shared set of common beliefs. We must combat the biased takes in constructive ways.
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''Humanities are unnecesary and a burden in modern society!'' is a statement that will never be valid, at least not as long as we get takes as moronic as this one.
Losing my mind at this guy. Literally a google search away. They do not even try to hide it. And most people who see this, according to the numbers in the tweet, do agree!
But it gets worse.
Those dumb guys in the primitive americas did not know how to write. Wait, what? What's this?
Wait, what? A mayan king commemorating an HISTORICAL battle by using WRITTEN GLYPHS? B-but they have no sense of time or writting! That must be a fluke!
Mmmh? But...?
A stel portraying a maya queen, with again written symbols mentioning her directly?
''No, those don't count, they're just dumb short phrases, they are surely uncapable of writting down coherent tex-''
Wow, the Dresden Codex, dated from 11th century (mayans were not even at their peak here) writting down their religion, customs, different gods and even complex astronomical movements all-in-one!
Those stone age troglodytes were surely lucky to be able to keep time counts in the thousands of years!
Okay, you're right. Mentioning mayans is cheating because they do not use enough ''actual words'' only drawn ones!
Forget the fact they had a whole ass syllabic system, that experts have been deciphering for decades.
By this rule of thumb, the japanese are all illiterate because they do not actually use words, but abstractions in the form of syllabes. Maya greatest mistake was to do their particles too artistically or something.
The previous tweet implied there was going to be a threat debunking whatever rambling that person was on about, but it stopped there. So... okay.
Regarding the aztecs, that would actually be somewhat accurate. They relied mostly on ideographic writting, but they also combined syllabes. They were still developing their language independently of the mayans. The process was interrupted by the arrival of the spanish crown.
However the writting of the aztecs is stupid and primitive because it doesnt resemble my latin alphabet enough AAAAGH! With such underdeveloped writting they wouldn't be able to write texts, let alone make librar-
Someone else answered, and it's literally the first google result right now, putting this curious image.
I wonder what it's trying to convey.
Solved. It's not a library because... well it's not! It's made of stone and has stupid scribblings stored. It's a nu-library!
How are we going to tell Asurbanipal his assyrian library does not count because it's just not a library, because we need to dunk on the americas?
Forget the books. The real reason they're regressive is because they had no wheel.
They obviously relegated the wheel to toys, because after inventing, polishing it, even using it metaphorically in their intrincate calendars, they decided they didn't know how to use it beyond children toys. It was, again, a skill issue.
Regarding armor and weapons, did you know spanish conquistadores discarded their plate mails and used cotton armor from the natives, far better resistant to rust, and able to disperse slashing and piercing damage with comparable success? Far more comfortable, mobile, and less prone to well, cooking you alive.
How come, also, that Mayas and Aztecs knew each other? They lived in different zones of Mexico with frontiers separated by kilometers? Their trading routes (shared) must have been a stroke of dumb luck.
Apparently if you don't cross the whole ass Pacific/Atlantic Ocean, it does not count. By the way, did anyone in China, India, Africa, Europe or even Australia know about the Native Americans?
Conclussion: If you exclude Mayans, Aztecs, a myriad of other cultures in the Americas, their issolation to the rest of the continents, their set of beliefs, languages, structures, trade routes, traditions, libraries and use of the wheel among some other ''tiny'' advancements... well, you're right. They end being quite primitive.
I guess that's their fault. Maybe they should have conquered us first or some crap.
Those morons and their obscure scribblings.
PD: I excluded this person name in purpose. Do not send harassment to them. This generalized ignorance of America cultures does not radiate from a single person, instead is a shared set of common beliefs. We must combat the biased takes in constructive ways.
#language#culture#rant#anthropology#history#linguistics#maya#mesoamerica#glyph#dudebro#aztec#aztec culture#codex
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Im still around! As a matter of fact, I kept investigating on mayan gliph writting and I feel far more confident now. Soon I will drop part 1 tutorial.
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We love the chonky scorpion
~ Eccentric Flint in the Form of a Scorpion.
Place of origin: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, or Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Culture: Maya
Date: A.D. 600–900
Medium: Stone, Chert
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I love bullying chatgpt. Serves it for being such a pedantic stuck up. I wouldn't do this to a person ever, but you are just a program that happens to mimic some of the human traits I hate the most.
Yes, that's right, I'm going to put you through torture by asking you to put all the diacritic accents in that sentence written in vietnamese. I won't stop until you either do it correctly (which you won't, despite languages being your field of expertise) or you end a crying anxious mess on the floor.
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Cthulhu creation process was something like:
Lovecraft: It's a terrifying creature, one that drives mad whoever who even glances at it. I can only describe it's most prominent features, or I, the author himself, could end being driven insane
Artist: So like a green gargoyle with an octopus for head?
Lovecraft: W-well yes but it's scarier than you think!
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One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:
It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.
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It appears bluesky is public, no invites, no waits, nothing. But they waited too much. In december they were at their peak. 2 months in the internet is an eternity and the invite system overstayed it's welcome.
I stopped posting there because it looked like I was screaming to the void! Too little active people, too little interactions. Also most people there have very different tastes and vibes. For now I'll probably sit this one out, if it gets traction again... maybe I'll come back.
Not to mention tumblr is far more compatible with my habit of infodumping about anything. If I had to do the Selk'nam post divided by 300 character limits I'd tear my hair off.
I wish the very best of luck to the new users, tho! Anything beats Xitter nowadays.
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the cat game of my dreams.
wallpapers // prints // shirts and stuff
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Dungeon Meshi is being such a ride dawg
His arrival was foretold in the ancient murals
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they should invent infodumping over text but in real life & in my arms
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Okay! I have been tweaking a little bit with the mayan glyphs. The explanatory books did explain the general rules well, but they left some gaps about position, rotation and the like, so by trial and error, and observing a big enough number of steels, I think I figured it out.
It's easier than I make it be, seriously! After all, a human invented them, and a group of humans could comunicate with them.
I'll look into this and kept telling you soon enough... unless I got it all wrong.
Pictured: Logogram for Ajaw. The name given to the lord of a mayan territory. Also the 20th and last day of the month in the secondary calendar.
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What's cool about Humanities Tumblr is that I can lower my guard more often, unlike Xitter where there's a 90% chance the guy running the account named something like ''Declaration of Art'' with a Greek statue is some weirdo who every other 5 tweets throws some crude dogwhistle.
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The Taa language of Botswana
Coincidentally, we're in Black History Month, and even if were I live it's not a widespread thing, I have found something very curious to share with you all!
I just found out about what could be one of the languages with the most complex pronunciation in the modern world, to the point that while digging it I saw IPA characters that I wasn't even aware that existed?
The Taa language, also known as ''ǃXóõ'' or ''!Xoon'' (not written that way, that's how you pronounce it) is located between Botsuana and Namibia, and has many entirely unique rules of speaking, like using ''tongue clicks'' (what we reduce in the west as mere ''tsks'' separated from words) of different types as consonants in their speaking.
Listen to this audio of a native child saying, in order:
''I speak the !Xoon language'', ''The sky is blue'', ''The sun is shining'', The moon is full'' and ''The rain is falling''
(Taken from http://languagesindanger.eu/, an association that provides material from endangered languages under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED)
Depending of the speaker, and including clicks as consonants (they distinguish different ones), it can have over 80 consonants, and 20 to 30 vowels, not counting up to 4 different tones.
I wasn't even aware there were any language with such a wide range of possibilities! (Not including conlangs made that way on purpose, yes, Ithkuil, Im looking at you).
It's complexity sadly limits it's use in a globalizing world where english (amongs others) has been impossed as the new lingua franca. Nowadays there's 3000 native speakers left, divided in two major dialects.
Fortunately, associations like the one I mentioned above fight for the persistence of the languages, or at least their complete documentation and catalogation in the worst case scenarios.
To close the post, an audio clip girl from Namibia speaking Taa in a traditional celebration, extracted from wikipedia.
(Originally from Max Max Planck Instituut voor Psycholinguïstiek under CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED)
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