8 Tons of Lost Mayan Treasure

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Originally Posted by Opaque

Your wife

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Don't you bad mouth vanilla ice cream.

Don't you fucking dare.

I'm not! For some people vanilla ice cream is just fine.
I mean, it's consistent. You always know what you're gonna get.

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Originally Posted by Opaque

Forty years, sneaking up on half a century, seems like an absurdly long time to spend translating shit when experts are involved who must have tons of resources at their disposal.

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You're acting like they just set down and read the Dresden for years and years. That fucking book has been in a library for CENTURIES! They know what's in the fucking book! There's only like four of them in decent condition. The natives, to this day, can speak their language but asshole fucking faggot ass bishops burned their books and punished them for trying to write. So what left than these four books? Etchings in stone. But this isn't dry Egypt where stone lasts forever it's the GODDAMN tropics! The jungle is slowing destroying the temples. That is what took forty -- fuck that -- a hundred years... to find these writing in deteriorated stone and then piece a puzzle together out of it. Shit ain't easy.

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Originally Posted by Josh

Somebody is fucking the wrong women, I see.

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Obviously. All married men are if they are faithful.

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Originally Posted by Opaque

Your wife must suck in bed.

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Now that's an action verb appropriate for women.

Yoshi never once running into a woman that fucks actually explains quite a bit!

So all this time he just needed a good fucking and he'd be happy? Oh man...

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Originally Posted by Opaque

How many years do you think it would take to figure out directions written in the most obscure Japanese dialects when you need them in English? On person who knows both the original dialect and another similar one explains it to someone else who knows the second dialect and a third and so on and so forth until it's in English. Then you know how to get where you want to go.

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You phrased that as though it was a rhetorical question and then failed to answer it. So I guess I'll help you:

A number of words in Japanese have no English equivalent, so depending on what's written and who's translating it and how many people are working on it (which is both a good and a bad thing), you'll likely get a rough translation fairly quickly and an exact translation never. That could mean all the difference between knowing which roads to take and what landmarks to look for. That is, as stated, for a modern language that gets a fair amount of usage, as opposed to something that's nearly dead and requires researchers to decipher parts of it.

I'm also not sure what you're referring to by the blanket statement of "resources," but hopefully you're talking about something in particular you know about with their ability to translate and aren't just bringing up vague generalities like money and technology.

It's not surprising that it took the archaeologists so long to decode the book.
Everyone knows that nerdy diggers can't read.

I find it funny that the Maayan city of Atlan was rocked by an earthquake on Devil's Night in the year 666BC. Only in hindsight do we see the significance!