Re: Jews in Ill Bethisad: MS *and* the Judajca-speakers? (was: Judajca)

Steg Belsky wrote:
>Actually, i remember hearing about something, i think it was a book,
>based on the premise that Carthage (their native Semitic name being Qart
>Hhadasht, if i remember correctly) conquered Rome, instead of the
>opposite.  And therefore, instead of having a Roman Empire that develops
>into Romance languages, you have a Carthaginian empire that develops into
>neo-Punic languages.
Sounds like one of Poul Andersen's "time police" stories-- in the one I'm
thinking of, the heroes are surprised to find themselves in a Norse- (maybe
Celtic-) speaking NYC; they ultimately figure out that they need to go back
to the time of a certain crucial battle during Hannibal's invasion of Italy,
where they discover a time-traveling evil-doer with a rifle who is planning
to gun down the Roman general. "There", he succeeded. But they thwart him,
of course, cancelling the spurious timeline and allowing "here" to develop.