User talk:Nick xylas

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[edit] Conlang

In the discussion on Westcountry Brythonic, you state "one of my favorite pastimes is designing a version of Modern English based on the premise "What if the Norman Conquest had never happened?" — but I don't put it up at Wikipedia and pretend it's an attested language!". Have you put it up anywhere on the web, as I would be interested in learning about it? Nick xylas 18:51, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No, I haven't. I don't even have just one version of it, I have several, which vary according to my mood and to what extent I want non-Norman English to be influenced by Norse, or whether I want non-Norman English to have started borrowing words from French during the Enlightenment, as German and Dutch did. Another of my "what-if" languages (also never made available for public consumption) is my "What if a Romance language had developed in Wales" language. Basically, I took the sound changes that Latin words went through when they were borrowed into Welsh and made a Romance language out of them. I thought of it because one of my professors in graduate school used the term "the Romance language that almost became Welsh" to describe the late Latin spoken in Britain up till the 5th century. --Angr 19:22, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Aren't neo-Cornishes close to being conlangs? True, there may be MSs that contain large amounts of Cornish in them, but the spoken language is inadequately recorded, and much of what is about today is reconstruction or even guessing (not to mention borrowing from Breton), rather than an organic version of the original. Everson the publisher will no doubt disagree. 193.39.159.3

[edit] Hayley Savage

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