Recent content by Sol717

Apologies for diverting the discussion, but these folk-linguistic explanations are unsupported by the evidence. Loss of historical /r/ ("non-rhoticity") would have been a proscribed, lower-class feature in the early Hanoverian period; it entered the London standard around 1800, though poets...

Apologies for my belated response; I'm sure you would've preferred it if I'd either left this alone or replied immediately. However, I feel future readers might benefit from a response to your claims. Technically, no, but some understandings differ to such a degree that one would be unable to...

Again, you're not quite getting what I'm talking about. Catholics are only one of the three groups I mentioned, and even they have liberals such as Cardinal Marx. You will no doubt make the claim that most Catholics will not adhere to such views; but I have nowhere claimed that such views are...

I'm not talking about run-of-the-mill Catholic laymen; I'm talking about professionals, whether they are Catholics, secular researchers or members of other Christian denominations and religions (all of these groups will of course have their own biases). I don't think the line between "differing...

While "doctrine" probably has some technical signification within Catholicism, from my secular perspective, a "doctrine" is simply a teaching that is seen as fundamental and unalterable, so it makes sense for me to use the two terms interchangeably. You can take comfort in the fact that I'm not...

While that is certainly what Catholic apologists would like you to think, you know full well that most non-Catholics don't have any reason to take this claim seriously (for instance, many secular historians note that the aftermath of Vatican II seems to have heralded a seismic shift in the...

I don't find American expansion particularly likely in such a scenario. The US will have its hands full trying to deal with the Mexico-shaped millstone hanging from its neck, as it would probably lack the requisite tact to successfully integrate Mexico. Additionally, America's preexisting...

The point was that having a separate forum would be convenient, even if there wasn't that much of it. For me, sheer quantity of content has nothing to do with it (I understand you might think differently).

That'd be even better, but is even less likely to happen, as I believe Ian's historically been a bit tetchy about the presence of stuff that has limited relation to alternate history.

The Help forum is explicitly demarcated as being for "questions about how to use the forum"; I think it should be kept limited to those kinds of queries, because it allows the moderation to efficiently respond to queries without distraction. Threads like this probably deserve a dedicated...

Another factor that you have failed to mention is the slow decline of the hippie subculture. While most people think of the hippies as a purely '60s phenomenon, they persisted into the 70's with a decent amount of relevance; they only started to really decline in the 80's as the increasing...

It pretty much is one in OTL. My own ideas: Something involving a stronger Georgian nation, with a post-Mongol POD. East Slavs don't make it as far into Finnic and Baltic lands, leading to stronger Norse influence in the region and the region becoming Catholic. An counter to all the...

Mongolia is missing from that map.

I don't think that will happen without an explicit project/proposal, and is utterly impossible with increasing nationalism in India. However, the British could make a Latin orthography for Hindi and start a literacy programme that eventually makes the Latin script dominant. This would be helped...

You could argue that it already exists.