Re: Brithenig/Aelyan North America (was: Re: Languages in theBrithenig univer...

At 23:18 07.4.2000 -0400, Roger Mills wrote:

>And if that were the case, far more likely many of the colonists could have
>been killed off, repelled or otherwise kept in their place.  Perhaps *There*,
>the technological gap is not so wide?
That's the idea in my conhistory, where the New World was discovered by
both Norse and Arabs around the time the Norse actually got there in our
history.  As a consequence there is no name for both the southern and the
northern continent: the northern is _Vinlandia_, and the southern is
_al-Maghreb-al-Akbar_ "The Greater West", which somehow became _America_ in
Latin! ;-)

>But for Napoleon/Jefferson, I might have grown up francophone in Dacota-Sud--
>but OTOH most likely Anglo/Dutch/Welsh  great-granddad would never have
>crossed the Mississippi, and I'd still be plowing in Indiana. What a ghastly
>thought. As for South Florida, it could be an Antillean dependency.
In my conhistory the area south of Ohio and east of the Mississippi is
Muslim and Native American.  And in _Suður-Kotaland_ you would probably be
speaking _Vínlenzka_.  I've not decided quite what it looks like, but the
written language is very conservative, especially compared to the _Danisiq_
Lingua Franca and its creolized varieties, from which speakers of Vínlenzka
would like to distance themselves.




/BP

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