":Reading comprehension quiz: 
 ::""I am not responding to your claims about Dr. Herb and Liendhardt"" 
 :Please show me where I made a claim about Liendhardt. I am unaware of any claim I have made about Liendhardt. 

 ::here you're asking for the xth time now ""how does the Arabic understanding of the word Royal relate to the English one"" 
 :Ahah! I think I see some enlightenment here. My previous question was not related to the Arabic language in any way whatsoever. My question was about the English language, and about Islamic culture. I asked a question about English, and you apparently think an answer about the Arabic language is relevant. 
 :I think the problem here is that you're writing text in this thread which you think is an answer to a question, and when I read it it looks to me like it's totally unrelated. 
 :For example, you quoted text that was discussing ""cultural angles."" That has nothing whatsoever to do with this discussion. American English words have definitions which do not change depending on the ""cultural angle"" of the reader. If in the American English dialect, ""Royal"" does not mean ""on the same level as god"", then it doesn't. Period. Cultural angles don't change that. 

 :As to your claim about me having too many positions, you're confusing positions and justifications. I have more than one justification for my position, but my position is quite consistent. 

 :Let me try to re-state my position again: 
 :The cultural appropriateness of the word ""Royal"" is determined solely by the definition of the word in the English dialect of the speaker. 
 :Arabic terminology? Irrelevant. I'm not speaking in Arabic. Cultural background of the reader? Nothing at all to do with the definition of a word. Anything outside of the dictionary definition of the word is only relevant if you can justify it. 

 :(One way this could be reasonably justified would be on historical grounds - it's possible that a word's current definition is not offensive, but it was previously used in a way that was offensive to a group. Even though the word's current meaning isn't bad, it still brings up memories of past injustice.) 

 :I'm not trying to ""play dumb"" or not respond to arguments. I'm just truly having trouble figuring out how and why you think some of your statements relate to the topic at hand. Maybe we can sit down together over some coffee next time I'm in Kuwait. I think we'd at least come to a clearer understanding of our disagreement.   

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