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Scott Creighton Wrote:
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> I find it somewhat amusing that we struggle to
> agree on the precise meaning of a particular term
> in our modern vernacular
Language - and forms of language such as terminology - is in a state of continual change; the discussion in this thread concerning the contemporary term "pseudo-history" (which can mean different things in different contexts) is one very small example of continuing linguistic change in a living language.
> and yet be expected to
> make accurate interpretation of a 2000+ year
> inscription that - itself - references events
> millennia from its own inception.
The inscription at Edfu comes from an established historical context; it was written in a language that belongs to history, is no longer spoken today, and is therefore no longer in a state of change (although, obviously, it must have undergone considerable change during the course of millennia). The hieroglyphs of which the inscription is composed could, if necessary, be compared with the corpus of other contemporary inscriptions to check their meaning (which I am sure is what happened in this particular case anyway). Why should the subject of the inscription - a (supposedly) ancient tradition - of itself make the inscription more, or less, difficult to understand?
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