#asya knorozov

[knightofleo]

#important people #yuri knorozov #asya the cat #asya knorozov #asya #100k

[travelinmatt67]

"Linguist(s) Extraordinaire"

Yuri Knorozov

1922-1999

When will they make a movie about Yuri and Asya??! Don't forget about Asya!!

#yuri knorozov #asya #linguist #mayan #language

[frankenbuddha]

I opened Wikipedia to see if the story about the cat was true and they had cropped out the cat!

#yuri knorozov #asya #Chicomoztoc

[arrrhe]

since @white-bow-tie brought up the fox thing

[in russian] "This is Napoleon Solo, Number 1 in Section II, a field agent." "And who's that guy holding him?"

btw, they were talking about Yuri Knorozov and his co-author Asya the cat in the original pic

#tmfu #the man from uncle #napoleon solo

[naniguini]

My favorite image genre is middle-aged/old men with cute animals

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Credits

Old man's treasure (Das katten) by Karl Gussov (1876)

Cover page of One Piece chapter 860: Crocodile holding out an umbrella for a puppy shivering in the rain

Snuggle by 鹿 野 (here's the post I got it from)

Photography of Yuri Knorozov and his cat Asya

#art #cats #dog #pidgeon #one piece #sir crocodile #photography #my posts

[victusinveritas]

Soviet linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer Yuri Knorozov, who was particularly renowned for the pivotal role his research played in the deciphering of the Maya script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica, 1971. His cat, Asya, was credited as co-author on most of his research--if she was not credited by publishers, Knorozov would bother them until they issued an apology and correctly cited her valuable research.

#archaeology #meanwhile in russia #cats with jobs #linguistics #mayan archaeology

[ivanseledkin]

Yuri Knorozov was a Soviet linguist who deciphered the Mayan script in 1953. He had a habit of listing his Siamese cat Asya as a co-author to many of his works; however, his editors would always remove her. Knorozov would also use this photo with Asya as his official author photo and would get upset whenever his editors would crop her out. Deciphering the Mayan script was extremely challenging because there was no Rosetta Stone to provide translations into other languages. The only clues that remained were from Mayan stelae (stone monuments) that were scattered throughout several different ruins. Knorozov worked in isolation in the Soviet Union and was able to make major advancements without ever stepping foot in Central America. His breakthrough was rejecting the notion that the Maya glyphs were based on an alphabet but rather a syllabary (a set of written characters representing syllables). When Knorozov published his work, he was attacked and dismissed by several prominent academics, most notably, J. Eric S. Thompson, a British scholar who believed that the Mayan script was anti-phonetic and based on ideographic principles. It also did not help that Knorozov published his research during the height of the Cold War when Western scholars were quick to dismiss the works of Soviet scholars as being tainted by Marxist ideology. It took decades for Knorozov to finally receive the recognition he deserved. One of Knorozov's earliest supporters was an American Anthropology professor at Yale by the name of Michael D. Coe who would later go on to write, "Yuri Knorozov, a man who was far removed from the Western scientific establishment and who, prior to the late 1980s, never saw a Mayan ruin nor touched a real Mayan inscription, had nevertheless, against all odds, made possible the modern decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing."

[siamesenekouwu]

Yuri Knorozov, the linguist who deciphered the Maya script, 1953. He listed his cat Asya as a co-author on his work but the editors always removed her. He always used this photo with Asya as his author photo and got pissed whenever editors cropped her out

#siamesecats #cats #pets #aww

[nous-portons]

Yuri Knorozov, the linguist who deciphered the Maya script, 1953. He listed his cat Asya as a co-author on his work but the editors always removed her. He always used this photo with Asya as his author photo and got angry whenever editors cropped her out.

#cats #cat #funny