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  1. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    One thing I found especially interesting about that last part is that the writing style seemed to change right at the end, almost as if it was inserted by a different writer. I wonder if the story has been censored or rewritten as the original wasn't considered anti-Societist enough. Random...

  2. WI different continents?

    It's the whole Anglophone world at least, not just the US (well I can speak definitely for the UK and I'm pretty sure about Canada, Australia and India). Culturally it's an awkward one, you've got one definitely culturally united block in South America (the Guyanas and Suriname not...

  3. AHQ: lingual drift from a single language

    I'm very much an amateur linguist at best myself but in lieu of someone else more qualified responding I'll take a crack. I would say that we actually have quite a few historical examples of this. By 842 old French had diverged sufficiently from Latin to have treaties written in it (oaths of...

  4. Una diferente ‘Plus Ultra’ - the Avís-Trastámara Kings of All Spain and the Indies (Updated 11/7)

    I'm amused greatly by King Alexander of Scotland falling off his horse and dying without an heir throwing the country into chaos, again! I'm intrigued by the Danish connection. I know you said you want to get back to Spain and I may have missed it in an earlier update but why have they - and...

  5. Eugenics, Nukes and an Avocado Pizza - A Sideways Party Run-down TL

    I mean it's not a problem, in fact i thought that was what you were going for - slowly revealing the world rather than just telling us what's happening straight up.

  6. Eugenics, Nukes and an Avocado Pizza - A Sideways Party Run-down TL

    This is really well and subtly done. It's fascinating but also frustating how slowly you're revealing the world, Chairman Beria notwithstanding - I keep trying to click on the quote links to read the rest of the thread!

  7. Lands of Ice and Mice: An Alternate History of the Thule

    Another option could be that the Thule package simply doesn't spread to Tibet until a fair bit later on, say the 1800s even, and is spread by more "organised" traders. So they don't avoid falling further into China's sphere, but later on than that the population base in the area is sufficiently...

  8. On the evolution of romance languages and modern nationstates

    This is really cool, and I've often wondered about an India-esque Europe in a TL. Unfortunately I think your PoD is simultaneously too late and too early. I thought that by the time of the reformation Latin was on its way out as a language of diplomacy and so on, but at the same time having a...

  9. Name of Scandinavian Language in United Scandinavia?

    I mean, Napoleon was uniquivocally ethnically Corsican. He also crowned himself emperor of the French and although I haven't asked him I'm pretty sure he considered himself to be French. Ethnicity =/= Nationality, nor does native language. The French government does not track ethnicity in...

  10. Hanging Together - A Guide to 21st Century Federalism in the "United" Kingdom

    I'm now attempting to capture First Minister Blair's voice in my head, and it is a very disconcerting experience. It's presumably quite close to his OTL voice but with a little bit more of that "lilt" you describe, maybe sort of close to some Edinburgh accents? This is another little bit of AH...

  11. Lands of Ice and Mice: An Alternate History of the Thule

    It's on hiatus at the moment but not dead -the author is busy with a Doctor Who TL just at the moment (which is also excellent but obviously quite different, link just above your post).

  12. A House Divided: A TL

    Just saying you have an out! But seriously, this update, hell, this whole thing is great. I'm still not really sure where you're going (or indeed if you have a specific end game in mind) but I'm loving the way that you're setting up a pretty enormously different 19th century from such a...

  13. Trilingual Scotland into the 20th century

    I like the concept and I agree that it is doable but I think you've got to consider how this happened in the first place, and that this will have at least as big an effect. I don't know much at all about Norn (although weren't Orkney and Shetland part of Norway in 1400?), but Gaelic probably...
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