Recent content by ruth

I for one welcome Spain's cat-loving dictatorship of the proletariat. #GatetesConGarzon

In fact, it's been argued that the vast simplification that occurred between Old English and Middle English is evidence that Middle English actually was a creole language. While I think the evidence against this hypothesis is probably stronger than the evidence for, and it's more likely a case...

Really interesting concept for Korea! I'm interested to hear more about the policy of "detachment" and what political winds prompted it in Japan proper. With such a long period of Japanese suzerainty (and apparently ongoing economic predomination), I would expect that Korean would continue to...

Chinese colonization of Mexico in the 1400s yields avocado, chili and tomatillo congee, a frothy chocolate-matcha drink, and char siu on tortillas de masa.

What a neat idea! It's always fascinating to see how the prestige of a language can just as much result in not loaning a word to another language. OTL French, while not a global lingua franca, is the clear language of administration and education/second language of choice in many areas such as...

I really like the subtle signs of the influence of Spanish-as-a-global-language in modern English, like the use of the term "líder" and the writing of centuries with Roman numerals.

The Troubles sound like a combination of Quebec separatism (Is that a QS logo I see for Solidaridad Nacional? :p) combined with Northern Ireland, which doesn't sound like a happy mixture. Were there any periods after statehood where something like Anglo minority rule was attempted?

Beautiful work. I love the cover too—what's it from?

This is becoming a mini-series, I guess. Classic novels of the Pacific States of America Bethlehem, John Steinbeck A Sojourner There, Joan Didion

Thanks! Alternate cuisine is a great way of showing the different ways culture can spread through a place, I think. I'd love to see what music and literature are like in this world. Has the presence of a large Hispanophone territory in the US bolstered its positioning as a creator of...

That post made me very hungry. That aside, seriously great work so far.

I haven't seen a lot of content based on alternate-history novels around here. Here's a couple from my timeline:

It's been a while since I've had something good to post here. The China of Man in the High Castle is...not a very happy place.

The modern form of 'Wales' in modern Scandinavian languages is a loan from English, not an English loan from ON. 'Welsh' is cognate to ON valskr, which means 'Celtic/Roman/foreigner in general', but it originated independently from its own Old English root, with much the similar meaning. (Fun...