Human words are organic. They have lengthy histories, which
are thier meaning. A dictionary is cyclicly self-referential,
because the roots of a human languange are the roots of the
humans using the language. There are a number of words that are
strongly believed to be the same in e.g. English as they were
in Indo-European, 6000 years ago. "ail" , "whore" and similar.
( neat stuff on that in the back of the American Heritage
Dictionary, IIRC )
The meaning of a human word is the overlap of the histories
of the users' histories vis-a-vis that word.
Thus it would take some unimaginable computing power to
model the actual interactions caused by an occurence of a word
like "our" between two humans.
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