Re: Who's in Ill Bethisad anyway? (fwd)

Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> Andrew asked me to forward this to the list, as he's
> having some trouble with his new email address and
> the listerver.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from andrew <hobbit> -----
>
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> A German Soundshift language should be made quite clear that it isn't
> Germanech.  Germanech occurs because the Roman Empire and its coloniae
> extended further into Germania than occured *here*.  That effects how
> history turns out.  Rather than repeat that I would accept that a German
> tribe such as the Bayavari (sic) change from OHG to VL and still keep
> the same sound changes.
That's pretty much the premise of my German Soundshift language.
Basically, it's VL that undergoes the changes from OHG to modern High
German, as well as a healthy amount of changes as a result of the
Germanic substrate influence and a number that also affected the nearby
Romance languages - Italian, maybe a little French, and also Rumauntsch
and friends.

Things are still very flexible, although I do have a good idea of what I
want it to end up like.

> [PS: I understand Germanech to be Rheimeier's Germanic-Romance
> conlang, as differentiated from Hailman's.]
And that would be the correct understanding, unless I'm mistaken.

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Robert