Re: Montreiano irregular verbs (long reply)

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Are they called Montreianos already in Spain, and if so, how did they get
>that name?  I sort of assumed that the people were named after their new
>city/country rather than vice versa.
Well, they are named after their new city/country. Sorry if what i wrote
implied otherwise ;).
>
>> There
>> still are some small border skirmishes from time to time, but these are
>> generally over water rights (a proposed plan to build a canal that would
>> deliver water to the Los Angeles region from Montrei rivers was shot to
>> hell quite vociferously by Montreianos in the 1930's).
>
>I'm surprised: I would think they would rather build the canal and
>then gouge Angelenos for the water charges.  Your decision, obviously.
Well, what happened was that AC decided that if they couldn't get water
from Montreiano rivers, they'd just get it from the rivers north of
Montrei (since AC surrounds Montrei). However there was one major flaw,
they couldn't go around Montrei, because it would be incredibly expensive
to route the pipes along the mountains. So, a deal was worked out and they
built a canal, after being gouged for it by the Montreianos to build it
through their country. It was much cheaper this way, but it still cost
them a pretty penny to do this.

Montrei profited big time, but AC was still able to water the growing city
of Los Angeles.
>


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