Butterfly the Anglo-Saxon invasion. Brythonic Britain survives but develops into a fragmented patchwork of Christian kingdoms in the shadow of Roman Britain. Then the Vikings come and establish Danelaw and their activity in the British elsewhere in the British Isles takes place as in OTL. But then a cross between Alfred the Great, Kenneth McAlpin and Brian Borumha from Dumnonia in the south West to conquer most of Britain, including OTL Wales but not the Gaelo-Picitish land to the north which develops into the Kingdom of Scotland. This figure, fighting off the Vikings establishes the capital of his expanding Kingdom at Caer Lundain, the old Roman capital. Britain South of the Forth is united under one Kingdom. Both Danelaw and later Viking rule over the Kingdom leaves Viking architecture and military technology widespread while the language absorbs thousands of Norse words. But because the language is so different from norse, Brythonic is not creolised.
Then those evil Frenchmen invade and the language absobs quite a few french words which obediently join the grammatical gender corresponding what they were in french. Then centuries later you have the empire and a former colony, Known as the Unol Dalethiau America (UDA), a british speaking superpower establish its influence.
By 2014, the language everyone has to learn Is quite different from its very distant continental cousins with lengthy words are neither legible nor pronounceable, a VSO word order and auxiliary verb based sentence structure that confuses most Europeans whose grammars work differently and last but not least, adjectives that appear not just in superlative form, the conjugated prepositions which have to be repeated hour upon hour in the french classroom and last but not least dreaded Treigladau which drive everyone from Stockholm to Palermo barking mad making them think how on Earth could these people have done this to them.
Would such a system be sustainable or would creolisation have to happen?
Then those evil Frenchmen invade and the language absobs quite a few french words which obediently join the grammatical gender corresponding what they were in french. Then centuries later you have the empire and a former colony, Known as the Unol Dalethiau America (UDA), a british speaking superpower establish its influence.
By 2014, the language everyone has to learn Is quite different from its very distant continental cousins with lengthy words are neither legible nor pronounceable, a VSO word order and auxiliary verb based sentence structure that confuses most Europeans whose grammars work differently and last but not least, adjectives that appear not just in superlative form, the conjugated prepositions which have to be repeated hour upon hour in the french classroom and last but not least dreaded Treigladau which drive everyone from Stockholm to Palermo barking mad making them think how on Earth could these people have done this to them.
Would such a system be sustainable or would creolisation have to happen?
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