Recent content by Nicole

"Year and a half late" hello!

I haven't commented much, but I'm really liking the timeline so far! (Especially the video game/computer stuff, that's more my interest) A lot of twists afoot... My understanding is that the SNES CPU is what it is not only because of add-on carts, but because early versions intended...

Thanks for letting me know you were going to be starting this- it sounds like it should be pretty interesting, I'll try to keep an eye on it! :) The part where AT&T cuts NYC out of the phone grid is interesting- was that sort of event known to happen at the time?

I'm glad people remember this TL enough to want to bump it! But I've been suffering from severe writer's block- multiple times I've opened Word to work on the TL, only to be unable to write literally anything... I'm not sure where I'm hung up. Also, I've been taking a bit of a break from...

I thought the Slavic languages had tons of declensions and conjugations- or so my friends who are studying Russian tell me. That's not particularly analytic... Hm- but the scholars want to read the ancient documents. That's what's on the civil service examination, after all... So the scholars...

As far as I know, Chinese has gained more polysyllabic words, but has remained mostly analytic in terms of grammar- no verb conjugations or declining nouns, unlike Esperanto, Latin, or English (to a certain degree, since English has lost a lot of that)... but as I said, I don't speak the...

In my post, by "that sort of writing system" I meant the sort that it currently has... (logographic) In Classical Chinese (my understanding is that this has shifted somewhat in the modern era), essentially all words are monosyllabic... English may have a lot of monosyllabic words, but it's...

I don't speak the language, but my understanding is that Chinese has a number of characteristics that make it well-suited to that sort of writing system- monosyllabic words, a large number of homophones, etc. Also, China was dominated by rather conservative empires for much of the pre-1900...

I see- so Maine and New Brunswick have both still been separated in TTL.

What does the 10-pointed star represent?

AT&T avoided that kind of thing by presenting themselves as providing a public service: "one system, universal service". I wonder if WU could do the same thing, though, given that they also own the telegraph system they could fall under more scrutiny.

Er, if you want a Canadian car company owned by Ford, wouldn't the Ford Motor Company of Canada count? :confused:

Ooh, I really like this map. The idea of a Communist-Nationalist coalition is pretty neat.

Crisis on infinite color schemes! All of AH.com's mapmakers in an epic crossover that will change the Alternate History Books and Media forum forever! But really I don't actually use any of the standardized color schemes... (and I haven't made a map in awhile... that's what happens when you...

Damnit, I was going to make a comment that they had colors for Andorra, San Marino, and the Vatican, but it turns out this is one of those maps that exaggerates those countries' size in order to give them a single (grey) pixel... DAMN YOU, WIKIPEDIA!! :p