cladking Wrote:
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> Every inclined surface is not a ramp. Only
> traditionalists see teams of men dragging stones
> on any inclined surface at all. Dragging stones
> up ramps is the very last thing the Egyptians
> would have wanted to do to build pyramids.[. . .]

Really?

> People are just going to have to get used to two
> simple facts; ramps are debunked and stones were
> lifted on the great pyramids by pulling them
> straight up the side.

Which amounts to dragging them up a (relatively steep) inclined plane.

So much for coherence.

The phrase “simple facts” here is empty rhetoric: they are not facts, they are not simple and the last thing the Egyptians (or anyone else) would want to do in building anything is deny themselves mechanical advantage.

None of which has anything to do with Femano arbitrarily redefining a word and then falsely claiming that others are redefining it when they use it in its standard sense.

M.