David Stuart
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And then just stumbled upon, that's like the most, that's the one story that I'm like surprised no one's ever done.
Yeah.
And I thought in your book that was, you know, the part of it I never even thought about was like, and I thought it was pretty cool that you document it was like the effort it took to decipher those like Mayan symbols and texts.
And I still don't understand what you're saying, like, because you get there like hieroglyphs.
they're phonetic, but also they like, that was something I was like trying to wrap my head around where they have like sounds almost like a consonant, but then it's also just like a pictogram where it's like, this is the thing.
And there, I don't know, that was like throwing me off.
I don't know how you guys did that.
That's what it was.
It was an Aztec.
That's right.
That's crazy, especially when you, the one thing, if I have this right, was like, you can have different symbols, similar symbols, but different for the same sound, which I was like, dude, that's pretty tricky.
That makes sense.
It's funny too.
Those are syllables, right?
Isn't Spanish like a notoriously phonetic language itself?
I remember in Spanish class, they're like, however you look at this, this is how you pronounce it pretty much.
For the most part.
I saw that in your book.
At one point, the guy literally just said, I'm tired.
Yeah, he writes down.