--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "suzmccarth" <suzmccarth@...> wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> >wrote:
> > suzmccarth wrote:
>
> > > but I still want the similarities which syllabaries share to be
> >made
> > > transparent.
> >
> > It has recently been clarified and necessarily restricted.
>

> > Or do you want to continue to call whales fish?

> >A herring is
> > closer to a whale than to a shark! It's also quite appropriate
> > hydrodynamically.

> in some funtional way.

E.g. gas-filled organ - swim bladder / lungs. But I meant in terms of
descent, see e.g. http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Gnathostomata .

Richard.