[ExI] A deep question

spike spike66 at att.net
Fri Feb 6 04:54:35 UTC 2009


On Behalf Of 
> Harvey Newstrom

> Subject: Re: [ExI] A deep question
...Is there some grand historical document that 
decrees that order that I am unaware of? ...
> 
> The earliest proto-semetic alphabets used the characters for 
> numbers and letters.  My guess is that the numbers evolved 
> for counting before letters evolved for recording speech.  If 
> that is true, the numerical order would have determined the sequence.
> --
> Harvey Newstrom <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>


Harvey how-the-heck-are-ya Newstrom!  Welcome back bud.  You were missed.

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