Well, Chilan is obviously the root of the Southern slang for children, aka chillen or chillun. And since the Mayans lived south of here, it makes sense that they'd be the root of all Southern slang.
As far as the Yax part, well, obviously Mayans were color blind as Yaks are clearly neither blue nor green. But we'll let that go - that color blindness is probably what led to the decline of their civilization, and I don't want to rub that in as it's probably a sore point.
(Bet you didn't know I was a linguistic expert, did you? There are few things as satisfying as deducing the etymology of a word through my amazing feats of logic.)
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Date: 2005-02-28 10:14 am (UTC)GOAAAAAAAAAAL!
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Date: 2005-02-28 12:08 pm (UTC)Chilan-not sure right now. I doubt it was children.
Nurd. ;-)
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Date: 2005-02-28 12:49 pm (UTC)As far as the Yax part, well, obviously Mayans were color blind as Yaks are clearly neither blue nor green. But we'll let that go - that color blindness is probably what led to the decline of their civilization, and I don't want to rub that in as it's probably a sore point.
(Bet you didn't know I was a linguistic expert, did you? There are few things as satisfying as deducing the etymology of a word through my amazing feats of logic.)
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Date: 2005-02-28 01:02 pm (UTC)Booyah.
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