Thank goodness the list minders haven't chopped this off. I've found it fun and enlightening. Especially while I ponder the use of my Canon DV so as to keep the thread on topic. On Apr 12, 2004, at 5:13 PM, Erica Sadun wrote: > Spanish certainly did not exist before Christ. > > According to the Christian Gospels, Jesus was a Jew > whose Aramaic/Hebrew name was the equivalent of the English > Joshua. > > Ladino (Judeo-Spanish, for the curious) dates approximately > to the 1400's. > > -- Erica > p.s. DV. DV. DV. Bitrate. MPEG-2. I-Frame.