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Re: question

--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch@m...> 
wrote:
> I send this to the list too, since Adam is interested
> 
> habarakhe4 wrote:
> 
> > --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Benct Philip Jonsson 
> > <melroch@m...> wrote:
> > 
> >>>Theophilus/Towr or Tohuyr at kxrift: Unfortunately, the Greek 
> > 
> > vowel 
> > 
> >>>changes preserve too distinct a Latinity (a hyper-conservative 
> >>>dialect, perhaps) and many of the distinctive sounds of Latin 
> > 
> > are 
> > 
> >>>already similar to that of late Greek. I have often wondered 
> > 
> > about a 
> > 
> >>>Greco-Latin sprachbund in terms of stress and phonological 
> >>>development.
> >>
> >>I've contemplated the opposite: French or Provencal sound changes
> >>applied to Greek!
> > 
> > Then you want the universe in which the soon-to-be renamed Cunwy 
> > (Welsh-changed Greek) is spoken. I just checked out Buck's _Greek 
> > Dialects_ to make notes on Siciliote and Massiliote Greek. Do you 
> > want to talk off-list about this?
> 
> Yes.  I must confess I do not know a whole lot about the matter.
> I once hounded up what Rohlfs had written about Italiote Greek
> (as spoken until the beginning of the 20th century), but his
> presentation, and his German, wasn't exactly easy to follow.
> The reason was/is that in my Lucus ATL there is a Byzantine-
> derived Empire of the Romans in Sicily and southern Italy.
> After the Greeks of Greece liberated themselves from the
> Turks (who are Zoroastrians in Lucus :) they expected the
> Emperor to remove from Neapolis and Syracusa to Athens.
> The Emperor disagreed of course, and there was a bit of
> a fall-out, which prompted some Italiotes to start asserting
> an Italiote identity and writing the popular language instead
> of the traditional Rhomaika Katholikon.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> /BP 8^)
> --
> B.Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
> 
>          Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant!
>                                              (Tacitus)
Is there an archive or website for Lucus? Or even a brief summary file?