Re: My Romance Conlang
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 19, 2003, 19:12 |
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Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:
> Staving Nikhil:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am making a new Romance conlang, with a pretty tough, inflected grammar.
> >Any suggestions for it.
> >
>
> I'd like to see what would have happened if Arminius (the German leader who
> slaughtered Varus' three lost legions in the Teutoburger Wald) had pressed
> home his advantage and conquered Rome.
I find it unlikely that he would have gotten that far.
His advantage lay in the particular tactical layout of
the German environs, to which the Romans were not accustomed.
He would additionally almost certainly never been able to
organize a large army for action *outside* Germania because
Germania was divided into tens if not hundreds of
tribelets, each of which was narrowly concerned about its
territory alone.
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