(August 15, 2014 at 3:31 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(August 15, 2014 at 3:20 pm)Undeceived Wrote: Isn't it funnier that you call talkorigins unbiased?is a stylized way of writing eight. It also can mean "person remaining" which itself is interesting. Your source even says "The upper part is a primitive ideograph for "divide," though it looks the same as the character for "eight.'" So it could mean both. But right now I'm looking and I can't find anything that backs up the "divide" meaning.
I repeat my request for an unbiased source for this claim. Are you going to ignore it again?
Please provide this requested source from a linguist.
Unless, of course, there is none, in which case a simple acknowledgement of that fact will do.