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----- Original Message ----- From: "Benct Philip Jonsson" <bpj@hidden.email>
To: <romconlang@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [romconlang] Re: Intervocalic lenition in Romance and MGR
On 14.1.2008 peter21691 wrote:Linguistically during this period (more or less the imperial period) there's palatisation across all of the West, including Germania in the North when the right conditions exist.So how are you going to implement platalization? It just occured to me that it may interfere with the West Germanic change of consonant + j into geminate consonant, which probably should happen in Germano-Romance!
Haven't looked in detail yet. Be nice to keep it if I can, I need those geminates later! There was a Roman gemination of course too... was that < my POD?
... I'd love to do the Romance lang spoken by the guys in North- West Germany who may or may not go over to Britain in the ATL, though!
At the moment, I have no Romance surviving ~ north of the Harz mountains in my present-day ATL - so Low German/Saxon exisits *there* too (except it's not 'low', as there's no 'high' to contrast with!). But it's always been at the back of my mind that once I have this pinned down I'd rewrite conhistory and do a 'low German' version, which should be easy enough after the groundwork I'l have done on this one. And once that is laid out, all you need to do is follow the phonological history of English to extrapolate a Romano-German version from there. The Great Vowel Shift really could be interesting!
BTW I've decided to call the ATL Mundus Germaniae Romanae, MGR, since the acronym "MGM" is probably TM-protected!
So is MGR... it's an MG model. I doubt Nanjing Auto would squeak too loudly though ;)