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Re: Montreiano irregular verbs (long reply)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 21, 2002, 11:57
Barry Garcia scripsit:

> Spain decided that they'd open the doors of colonization to anyone who > wished to go, rather than leaving the land alone for about a hundred years > as they did in our timeline (OTL). Montreianos come into the picture here.
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.
> 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.
> Hopefully I got the Ill Bethisad general history right ;).
I don't see anything wrong. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com Thor Heyerdahl recounts his attempt to prove Rudyard Kipling's theory that the mongoose first came to India on a raft from Polynesia. --blurb for _Rikki-Kon-Tiki-Tavi_