Who's in Ill Bethisad anyway? (fwd)

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> -----

Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 17:01:31 +1200
To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>

Am 03/31 17:16  Padraic Brown yscrifef:

> Well, are they still part of Scotland? If so, then they
> are now citizens of the Federated Kingdom (and hence at
> the very vanguard of civilisation, enightenment, etc.) ;)
> I have the feeling that the Shetlands are out of the way
> enough that _most_ FK issues won't affect them, and certainly
> very little of their history would affect the major themes
> of FK history (with all due resepct, of course!). Now, if
> they're able to get any helium out with their oil in the
> North Sea, then of course the FK will be quite interested.
>
That is working on the theory that the Kings of Scotland there was
successful in wresting the North Sea Islands from the Norse.  The
Shetlands could be a Scandanavian Island Republic like Iceland, or
Greenland (I think Greenland's independent of Denmark now, but I could
be wrong), or even still an autonomous part of Denmark like the Faroes.

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.

Let's see if this get's through.

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@griffler.co.nz
http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html

Lent: Living in Borrowed Time
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[PS: I understand Germanech to be Rheimeier's Germanic-Romance
conlang, as differentiated from Hailman's.]

Padraic.

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