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On 14.1.2008 Peter Collier wrote: > > ... > > > 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 *if* Germany up to the Albis came into the Empire then NW Germany was surely also Latinized, no? That is if you like the idea of a collaborative ATL. Otherwise we can go our own races and keep comparing! :-) > 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! *I* would predictably find Old Englich /&NglItS/ < Englichen < Englican < ANGLICANUM most interesting. The GVS wouldn't show up in spelling anyway! :-( > > 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 ;) Both acros have several meanings: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_%28disambiguation%29> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGR> "Male genital mutilation" and my preferences make me go for MGR tho! See <http://www.melroch.se/mgr/> Perhaps Germania Superior/Inferior would perhaps be Augusta/Agrippinensis in MGR, if their capitals are Aug. Treverorum and Col. Agrippinensis respectively, since their OTL names don't make sense with Alisonensis and Hercynia around. /BP