The Alphabetic Bouts Of Cartography, Round L!

Whose map was best?

  • Mr.J

    Votes: 14 43.8%

  • Turquoise Blue

    Votes: 18 56.3%
  • Total voters
    32
  • Poll closed .
Kaiphranos

Kaiphranos

Donor
Welcome to the voting thread for the twelfth round of the ABCs! Topic of the round: Language! Color of the round: 3DCFD4. At stake: the title of "Lord/Lady of L."

As always, vote for whichever map you think was best!


Mr.J

Mr.J said:
Our story begins with Kerensky deciding not to launch a summer offensive in 1917, despite his allies' protests. With the Russians essentially staying on the defensive at all times and avoiding combat whenever possible (but still putting up some resistance against the Germans and preventing a full-scale drawdown for a Spring Offensive in the West), the October Revolution is quickly stifled, and the chaotic Russian Republic survives to see Armistice Day (September 9th, 1918). Versailles turns out differently, with two key differences for our purposes:

1. Kerensky doesn't want a strong Poland, and is able to push for much of the Polish Corridor/East Prussia to be turned into a League of Nations Mandate (as opposed to just the Free City of Danzig IOTL).

2. He sees the usefulness of a universal language in attempting to keep the lid on ethnic nationalism, and with the US, Britain, Russia and Italy forming a united front, France is forced to accept Esperanto as an official language of the League of Nations.

A little over a decade later, Esperanto has been a great success in three areas. First, it is becoming the dominant language in the Danzig Mandate, as League officials try to give Poles and Germans some sort of common identity. This isn't going very well, but at least they can understand each other now. Second, in Poland Esperanto has become a sort of patriotic affectation, especially in its birth city of Bialystok. And finally, the Russian Republic is trying to use it as a unifying force as well, though this is mostly occuring around the capital and in the Autonomous Regions. In some Central European and Scandanavian capitals the language has a small following, mostly among League diplomats and Socialist parties.
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Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue said:
The NAL-SLC of Ill Bethisad is a somewhat quiet nation, not the big, strong superpower its equivalent the USA is here, but much more like its other equivalent, Canada. Like Canada, it has a lot of languages, but unlike Canada bilingualism is not sufficient, thanks to the many languages in the NAL. To get on well in the NAL, you need to know at least English and Brithenig, if not Riksmål and Dutch. Indeed, its largest city, New Amsterdam, has very little Anglophones, mostly Brithenig and Dutch. The nation's official languages are English (sounds and looks like Middle English), Brithenig (a more Latinic Welsh), Dutch (a little different from OTL), Riksmål (a merger of all Scandinavian languages, mostly Danish), Scots (The Germanic one), Ladino (A New World Jewish language), Castillian (Spanish with all the Aragonese and Catalan influence out), Algonquian, Cherokee and Inuttiut (all three native languages). Now do you see the problem with languages inherent within the NAL-SLC?
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(And once you've voted, stop on by the main thread to see what this week's challenge will be!)
 

d32123

Banned
Voted for Blue, though both maps were solid. It's a pity more people didn't enter this round. I would have entered, but my schedule was way too busy this week.
 
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