Re: New Romance Conlang - Roumán Part I,Intro and orthography

Christophe Grandsire tleiseiç:
> What about my "Roumant"? :(((( Are you saying that I'm having absolutely no
> influence here? <sob><sob><sob><sob><sob><sob><sob><sob><sob>
Well, Roumant's been around a while, and those were new ones.  It was
their newness that inspired me.

> Well, in all that, I think the most improbable thing is to find Roman naval
> shops getting caught in the Bermuda Triangle :))
The Bermuda Triangle's just the remains of the portal, the portal's
drifted westward over the centuries.  It was originally much closer to
the Atlantic coast of Europe, and used to be fairly unstable, so that
its borders shifted.  The ships simply happened to get caught in the
portal.  The other world they were transported to was a parallel Earth,
but one with no humans, but wherein dinosaurs (dlacouneis < dracones,
"dragons") survived, so that humans are pretty much limited to
Atlantis.  Kind of hard to have any settlements when a Brontosaurus
could come along and crush everything.  :-)

> Strange but nice romanization. You're saying that the native script has evolved
> from the Roman Alphabet. What does it look like?
Still working on that.  Most likely close enough that you'd recognize it
as a variant, but far enough for it to look foreign.  There may be other
ligatures, like of <tl> and <dl>.  Also, they'd probably use the Classic
Alphabet for some purposes, enough old parchments would survive for them
to know what it looked like and replicate it.

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