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Re: [conculture] CHAT: The centre of the temporal universe, was Translation relay

From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Scots is still a major language in that timeline?  So, Scots isn't
> considered a dialect of English in that timeline?

Scotland is an independent country with its own language, obviously
closely related to English but not identical.  England and Scotland
share the same monarch (Queen Diana, as of this writing), and are
both participants in the Federated Kingdoms of Great Britain along
with Kemr.
 
> East and West Jersey?  Do they occupy the same territory as our New
> Jersey?

Yes.  Originally they were separate colonies on our timeline too.
The line runs generally from Stokes Forest to Cape May.
 
> > New Sweden (Delaware) uses English, Swedish, and Irish.
> 
> Cool, so Irish is spoken in North America?  Is there anywhere on the Net
> I can access a description of this timeline's history?  Seems that there
> must be a great difference between our timeline and their timeline if
> Irish is still a major language.

Irish is the majority language of Ireland, though Brithenig and
English are spoken there as well.  Kemr (not England) conquered
Ireland, but didn't have the same linguistic-chauvinist attitudes,
and also didn't pull the Plantation of Ulster.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)



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