Talk:Philistine language
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| Philistine | ||
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| Spoken in: | Formerly spoken in southwestern Palestine | |
| Language extinction: | 5th century BC | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Canaanite Philistine |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sem | |
| ISO 639-3: | – | |
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[edit] The disinfobox
Looking at the disinfobox that I have reproduced at right, we see that, as is so often the case, the disinfobox trumps all nuanced discourse— subconsciously done, one hopes, assuming good faith—but coarsely effective. In this case the disinfobox definitively establishes the Philistine language as Semitic: specifically Northwest Semitic. All discussion has been peremptorily halted, because a blank in the otherwise purposeless disinfobox must be filled with something. Disinfoboxes, as anyone may see here, are not required to present any kind of substantiation through references and sources, as text is now so arbitrarily required to do, in a surficial display of an elusive Wikipedian intellectual honesty. The disinfobox sets up an anti-text that is designed to attract the semi-literate eye with lively color and to replace the drab article with which it jostles so uncomfortably on the Wikipedia page. Disinfoboxes rule, dudes! --Wetman (talk) 01:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
