Re: Ebb and flow (was Re: Naisek Pages Updated)

andrew wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
[snip]
>> Sure.  Making a romlang now is not the same as making a
>> romlang in '96 (or whenever Andrew came up with Brithenig).
>> Yet, the possibilities are not entirely exhausted, even if
>> many of the more plausible scenarii such as Britanno-Romance
>> or Germano-Romance have been taken.
>>
But just because a scenario has been 'taken' it does not mean, surely,
that no one else can use the same scenario. Andrew has, more than once,
asked me to show what I would do with Britanno-Romance. Maybe one day I
will do this - *not* as a rival to Brithenig, which is firmly embedded
now into the Bethisad shared-world project - but as an alternative
possible development (obviously in an alternative universe both to
*here* and to Bethisad).

> Hmmm, Thrjotrunn must be something like the great-grandchild of
> Brithenig.  I wonder what Romlangs look like plotted out on a flow
> chart?
I wonder, indeed, if they would all fit on a single flow chart.

> I am debating with myself over two changes to make to Brithenig.  Both
> will have to be retconned.  The first is to drop soft c, /ts/,
> becoming /tS/ in favour of /s/.  That seems to go go more naturally
> into the language, and makes it sound to my ear more 'Welsh'.
It's true that /tS/ is found only in recent English loan words in Welsh
- but it does occur with soft mutation /dZ/ in Cornish.

[snip]

> My reluctance to making changes to Brithenig is that it is embedded into
> the Bethisad shared-world project.  That's a lot of work, and a big
> surprise to foist on anyone!
It is indeed, and would probably lead a 'Bethisad' schism. My own view
is that Brithenig is now truly embedded into the Bethisad project it is
better to leave it as it is. If you really want to make significant
changes to Brithenig it would, in my opinion, be better to produce a
different conlang as an _alternative_ to Brithenig - as mine would be if
I ever get around to working on it - in a different conculture to
Bethisad (for alternative histories of western Europe since the Roman
period must be truly legion!    :)

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