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I have been thinking about a scenario where WWI breaks out with the German Confederation still alive. Surely it would be interesting.

An alternate Great War I where the Germanic Empire formed after the Germanic Revolutions of the early 19th century smashingly defeats the wide coalition of the Rus of Moscow, Lithuania, Poland, the Confederation of Saint Stephen, Moldavia, the United Celtic Kingdom, Brittany, Anjou, the Kingdom...

But A-H could have faced internal revolution at some point (specially by Czechs and Romanians).

I did not say anything about A-H surviving with their same 1914 borders, which is even more unlikely. Probably some concessions should have been made like i.e. granting the Trentino to Italy (not necessarily all the South Tyrol) and Galizia to a maybe resurrected Poland. Also Bosnia could have...

Which are the chances of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire to survive until the present day if somehow the World Wars (or similar large-scale war in Europe) were avoided during the 20th century? Would it manage to survive in peace times or would its dissolution/partition be unavoidable at some point?

An alternate scenario of colonial empires by 1820, after analogue Revolutions in America and Europe: To add some context: Spanish South America would be an analogue 'loyalist colony' as IOTL Canada, but in South America. The North American Federation comprises former British, Germanic...

Another alternate Arian Germanic Empire, this time in a form of a commonwealth of 12 non-centralized 'tribal' realms:

By the same reasons they did it IOTL with Sweden (against the Hansa) but now reversing the roles between Sweden and Germany.

Pomerania or early Prussia would be pretty irrelevant in such union, I can't see why Denmark would be interested. It should be easier to just invade them. These borders are more or less the borders of the IOTL Kingdom of Germany, HRE included part of Italy and Burgundy.

This would be by the 15th century more or less.

This map would reflect this kind of alternate scenario:

How it would have fared an alternate Kalmar Union between Norway, Denmark and a Kingdom of Germany non linked to HRE, formed as opposition to an expanding Sweden which would dominate most of the Baltic (Finland, Baltic states, Prussia, Further Pomerania...)?

Normally, oversimplifaction of language structures happen when one language comes into contact to others who are not fully familiar to them. Old English got grammarly simplified when it endured a situation of diglossia with Old Norse in the Danelaw, as it 'needed' to get simplified in order to...

I was thinking more about oversimplification of the structures of the language (loss of inflections and so) rather than a direct Romance influence.

I think that if Gothic eventually had passed to the Romance-speaking class it would have been pretty transformed to the point of becoming like a different language to the liturgical one, in a model like the classical Arab vs i.e. Moroccan Arab.