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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (160910)	4/22/2005 4:25:19 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 281500

It was philistines you were on about, previously ... is this about spelling? - in re that branch of science, you are now arranging the As in canaanite in the orthodox fashion, fwiw ... yes, they did live in a time period previous to phoenicians, duh, it's like Shakespeare and us here, no one is presenting us all as contemporaries, yet we're all speaking the same fricking language more or less, which is, ahem, the point The language group designated 'semitic' cannot have branches within it? ... you better tell all those people who think it can, quick before they get too much further astray ... already they divide it into north-east semitic and west semitic at least, possibly more one suspects ... if memory serves, canaanite they consider to be a subset of the north-east flavour, and aramaic possibly its sister within that subset ... memory getting fuzzy at that point, however, gee i wish michael would tell you to supply some links