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If I'm not allowed to nitpick, please don't read any further.  This is
off-topic anyway...

> How did tablet weaving get to Asia?  Should we follow the 
> original spread by the Celtic-speaking peoples and travel through Fort
Mirren?

Nitpick:  The term 'Celtic' is a recent (Victorian actually, I think)
invention describing a group of peoples with a common ancestry.  They did
not think of themselves as Celts, and did not have a common language,
although afaik their languages all derived from proto-Gaelic; these
languages eventually became Breton, Cornish, Welsh, Irish and Scottish
Gaelic and probably a couple of others I've forgotten about.  So, in short,
the term 'Celtic' is fine when applied to the people themselves, but there
was no 'Celtic language'.

End of nitpick.  My apologies if I bored/offended anyone.

Eckhard.


Eckhard Gartz
AFA Systems - Investment Software Solutions
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