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> 3) Yes, you have to compile all contemporary texts
> and anayze their word use if you want apply a
> Zipf-like analysis. I see that Thanos just added
> loads more examples of OK texts to the list I gave
> you and which you dismissed.

No! He did nothing of the sort.

What he added was just hundreds and hundreds of more titles. There are probably no sentences whatsoever in any of these tombs. Only one sentence survives and that is probably a title too.

What he added was more of the obfuscation that Egyptologists employ to hide the fact only the PT survives and it is both translated AND interpreted in terms of the book of the dead written 1000 years later.

What the titles will include is some new words not in the PT but relatively few and related to administration of the economy and occupations. If there were enough of these titles they would break Zipf's Law too but there aren't enough to be statistically significant.

From the great pyramid building age we have only the pyramids which are not being studied at all because linguists are in charge and the Pyramid Texts which have been parsed to death and assumed from the beginning to be gobbledty gook and incantation. Egyptology is a collection of assumptions as it applies to the great pyramid building age. There is no data and no data and no evidence to support these assumptions that the people were superstitious, changeless, and dragged tombs up ramps. These are merely beliefs.

> 5) Egyptologists are well aware that translations
> are not perfect but this does not mean a text can
> be read as geyser-fueled funiculars in one reading
> and a meeting of the Ennead to celebrate the
> king's resurrection in another.

Ancient Language looks odd to people who think in modern languages. It doesn't mean what it appears to mean but only exactly what it says. What it says can then be interpreted into modern languages.

> Duke, I think the task of moderating this
> discussion is not for you. We're never going to
> get to the heart of the matter with you at the
> helm. Not that Cladking couldn't have obviated the
> need for a moderator long ago by simply stating
> his process. I suggest you let him and me handle
> this on our own and you just watch and learn.

I'm sure you have something up your sleeve and can't wait to see it. ;)