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Hello Jean - 

CA>> Latin ceased to be developed some time ago and seems an
CA>> odd choice for 'scientific' discussion? 

JP> Maybe that is the reason why it is still used. No local
JP> dialect gets into it. 

A German C programmer was complaining to me recently that the
Germans do not want any new words added to their language and
consequently to document his programming requires 2 or 3 times
the volume of text it would require in English. I am also aware of
some negative feedback from the French about francophiles changing
the French language and adding colloquialisms etc. that the
French in France are not happy about. 

Considering all of the above I repeat that Latin would be a
poor choice for a scientific discussion unless encryption of
the information was the intended use. 

CA>> Bethlehem?

JP>> No still looking. I was more in old Lebanon, further north.
JP>>  

CA>> I'm not clear about what town you are looking for or why
CA>> you are looking for it? You were stationed there during
CA>> your military service?

JP> I win. I still remember why/what. We were discussing the
JP> invention of characters vs pictograms to get the written
JP> word on medium. It was done in that little town. 

I have no memory of ever being told our written language
originated in that region. I do know our numerals are Arabic
but I don't recall being told where our alphabet originated.
Much of it seems of Roman orign to me but I've never bothered
to track it down. 

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