Re: Slovanik, my new romlang

=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:

> Okay, all languages of this type are based on the idea of "history bending". In
> the case of Brithenig, that's easy: the Romans never left Britannia.
Just for the record, the Romans (as an administrative and military operation)
did leave Britannia.  However, their language took a firmer hold there than
in our timeline, and eventually displaced Proto-Welsh completely.
As Padrig's Kernu triad says:

        What did the Romans leave us?
        Three things: our language, our law, and our will.

> One could argue that, if the Romans were strong enough to keep
> Britannia, they were probably strong enough to move a bit further eastward,
> too. Or, on the other hand, couldn't the Slavs have moved a bit to the
> Southwest, just for my convenience?
Why not?

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