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--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@hidden.email> wrote: > --- Clockwork Angel skrzypszy: > > > Are there any Anglo-Romance conlangs out > there? > > As far as I know, not. I always thought it would have been an interesting project to continue with the historical Anglo-Norman. Not my cup o tea, though, historical conlanging. Of course, we've got Spanglish here in the States, but I guess that's more a natural fusion of Romance with English than it is a conlang, but that sort of cultural millieu might be a good starting point for someone interested in taking that course. There are a couple works on the language, too. > And since I have spent quite some time > collecting and cataloguing romlangs, I'm pretty > sure there is none. Did you get my Example Language? As I recall, the discussion was about what makes a language "Romance" or "Germanic" -- vocabulary or grammar. Many people think English is either Romance or ought to have a special "half-Romance" category on account of all its French vocabulary. So, I decided to "settle" the issue with "Omni Gall es divided in tres parts..." Every English word is replaced with a Latin root, and even the English function words are replaced by Latin roots. The point was to show that grammar is really what determines the linguistic affinity, so you'll note that gramatical endings are English, word order and syntax are English. It certainly "looks" Latinate/Romance. > Strange as it may seem, the actual number of > what-if romlangs is still pretty limited. How many have you catalogued? > > I've only seen mention of one (called, aptly, > Anglo-Romance), but > > the description was that it was basically > English with a lot more > > Latinate words, rather than an actual > conlang. > > Yeah. There is also some French/English hybrid > language. It's called > "Frenglish" or something. But I'm sure that's > not what you are after either. Is that like Franglais? Padraic. > Jan ===== spaltamananam mananaspaltar sactatray�y: p�tr�man potr�y sactafilt�y; camtamanstapurncanar ecca�astahtasactacatliq�xawi�taq��ax�ttasactafolyan holtanite-co holtanihal-to carxxaralhan tlasolimtalhan. xomin. Glory and honour, honour and glory to the all-Holy Trinity: the Father and the + Son and the Holy Spirit. Peace and edification unto the one, only, holy catholic and apostolic church of God that is from one end of the Earth to the other East and West. Amen. [Divine Liturgy of St. Thomas, Teleran] -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .