Timeline for What is the meaning of "humbler walls"?
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| Oct 11, 2015 at 17:50 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | I understand what the sentence is supposed to mean -- as we all do. I didn't see the documentary and I'm guessing this was an off-the-cuff remark that someone made. None of us speak in perfect prose and it's quite excusable if it wasn't an ideally turned phrase. I am addressing the OP's puzzlement and explaining that the sentence does not bear strict scrutiny and so the OP should not be concerned about finding it difficult to understand in linguistic terms. | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 17:37 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Advances just as significant as the engineering achievements developed over the pyramids' history were being made in humbler buildings [than the pyramids.] See barbecue's comment on the question. I thought my answer said that. Maybe not clearly enough. | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 17:33 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | I agree that the grammar is correct. It is just the semantics that are nonsensical. You either seem to think that advances were being made in the great buildings (in this case the pyramids) or you have left the phrase 'lower status' hanging. The buildings are of lower size and status than what? | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 13:45 | history | answered | Andrew Leach♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |