Re: GSF revisited

Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> On 7.5.2007 R A Brown wrote:
[snip]
>  > BTW I'm dropping the "Bactrian Greeks move eastward"
>  > scenario for the moment - it producing other distractions
>  > and is probably not plausible.
>
> Still it caught my imagination, as you saw. I may take it up
> some time in the future, if you don't mind.
I don't mind at all.

>  > I'll just concentrate and keeping the thing as close
>  > to early Koine Greek as I can, but dropping,
>  > hopefully, all grammatical flexions. I'll return the
>  > question of a conhistory/ althistory when the thing
>  > has taken better shape.
>
> Wouldn't then the best scenario be one where (South) Western
> Europe was Graecized rather than Latinized, and
etc. snipped.

and:
Joseph Fatula wrote:
[snip]
 > Or instead of having Alexander conquer the west, what if the Macedonians
 > in the days of the Roman Republic were even weaker militarily?  Rome
 > fights Macedonia, various parts of Greece rise up to aid the Romans in

etc. also snipped.

These are interesting scenarios - but IMO are more appropriate for
devising a Greek derived language, rather producing a language which has
a similar relationship to ancient Greek as "Latino sine flexione" has to
Classical Latin.

At the moment I'm disregarding all scenarios, conhistories etc -
interesting tho they might be - and am concentrating on the language
itself (which presents more challenges than "Latino sine flexione"). But
I guess if Alexander had conquer the west and his descendants had
defeated the Carthaginians, the Greek, not Latin, would have become the
auxlang of the whole of medieval Europe. We could then have a scenario
in which in 1903 a certain Professor Josephos Peanou proposed reviving a
"Greek without flexions" as an artificial auxlang    :)


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