Martin Stower Wrote:
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> cladking Wrote:
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> > Martin Stower Wrote:
> >
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> > > No, I’ve come upon the fatal weakness of
> your
> > > claim that definitions “are the starting
> point
> > > of communication”. The objection (which is
> > > strictly a logical one) applies irrespective
> of
> > > the language.
> >
> > No, this is just another case of someone
> handing
> > me a dictionary and telling me if I organize
> the
> > words properly I'll think just like him.
>
> No, this is a case of your failure to think.

I've been hung up the last several months on knowing what the word "runner" means.

Surely, you can tell me.

The word was translated from later writings (after the great pyramid building age) and may have been corrupted or confused. I don't even know what the word means in English so tracking it back to ancient Egyptian and then into the language of the pyramid builders might be impossible.

It's an English translation of mafdet's title.