Re: OT: LWII: The Euroclones Strike Back!

Costentin Cornomorus scripsit:

> Yes. I don't know enough about Breathanach or its
> history to make any definitive statements. It's
> most likely one of these two: Br is the result of
> a very strong Q-Celtic immigration into a still
> P-Celtic speaking land, where the fusion could
> take place; Br is the result of a very strong
> Q-Celtic immigration into a Romance speaking
> land; ... result of a strong Q-Celtic immigration
> into a P-Celtic-fused-with-Romance speaking land.
But it's spoken on both sides of the Irish Sea, which is kind of hard
to account for on either scenario.  It doesn't fit very well, but it
is too deeply embedded into the texture of IB to rip out now.

Just one of those mysteries.

> Quite! Good coinage, too, "esperantoid". I didn't
> know you were supposed to capitalise "eurocents"?
> I also thought that the plural was officially set
> at "eurocent".
See Michael Everson's page at http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/

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