Re: My Romance Conlang

At 14:12 19/06/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
Probably true, but it's still an interesting proposition for conlanging.
You could have had a Germanic speaking elite ruling over Latin speaking
commoners, setting the scene for the evolution of a kind of inverse of English.

Pete

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