Re: yet another romance conlang

At 14:11 -0500 7.1.2000, John Cowan wrote:
>Fabian wrote:
>
>> Latin/Germanic is esentially English.
>
>But you could do English in reverse gear, a Romance substrate/Low German
>superstrate language, something like this:
>
>Nos, le loite des staats vereinigs, afin de bilder une anshlusse plus
>complete, d'herstellar la rechtigheid, de vorsteller la tranquilite
>inlandishe,
>de steller a la verteidiging commune, de feurder le bien-être allgemeene,
>et de befestiger nous-mêmes e notre posterite les bienfaits de la
>freiheid, ordonnons e stellissons la presente constitution pour
>les staats vereinigs d'Amérique.
Wow!  The orthography could take some working-on, tho ;-)

tranquilite -> tranquilitee
bien-être -> bjen-eetre (since {ie} = /i:/!)
mêmes -> meemes
posterite -> posteritee
bienfaits -> bjenfeets
Amérique -> Ameerike

Hmm, I just wonder what the language of the 17th century Vallon immigrants
to Sweden may have looked like, had it maintained itself as a separate
language...


/BP

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