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    Thanks for the comment! Funny you should say that... chapters 3 and 4 are actually seeing some...

    Thanks for the comment! Funny you should say that... chapters 3 and 4 are actually seeing some changes for the first time in a while. I don't want to promise a timeline, but it hasn't been forgotten!
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    These Fair Shores: The Commonwealth of New England

    I for one welcome Spain's cat-loving dictatorship of the proletariat. #GatetesConGarzon
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    Could English have been a creole?

    In fact, it's been argued that the vast simplification that occurred between Old English and Middle English is evidence that Middle English actually was a creole language. While I think the evidence against this hypothesis is probably stronger than the evidence for, and it's more likely a case...
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    Oh I Wish I Was in Dixie: A Different North America

    Really interesting concept for Korea! I'm interested to hear more about the policy of "detachment" and what political winds prompted it in Japan proper. With such a long period of Japanese suzerainty (and apparently ongoing economic predomination), I would expect that Korean would continue to...
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    Alternate cusines

    Chinese colonization of Mexico in the 1400s yields avocado, chili and tomatillo congee, a frothy chocolate-matcha drink, and char siu on tortillas de masa.
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    Nobody Expects: The Spanish Revolution

    What a neat idea! It's always fascinating to see how the prestige of a language can just as much result in not loaning a word to another language. OTL French, while not a global lingua franca, is the clear language of administration and education/second language of choice in many areas such as...
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    Nobody Expects: The Spanish Revolution

    I really like the subtle signs of the influence of Spanish-as-a-global-language in modern English, like the use of the term "líder" and the writing of centuries with Roman numerals.
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    A Shining Valley - The Great Desert Lake in California

    The Troubles sound like a combination of Quebec separatism (Is that a QS logo I see for Solidaridad Nacional? :p) combined with Northern Ireland, which doesn't sound like a happy mixture. Were there any periods after statehood where something like Anglo minority rule was attempted?
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    A Shining Valley - The Great Desert Lake in California

    Beautiful work. I love the cover too—what's it from?
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes V (Do Not Post Current Politics Here)

    This is becoming a mini-series, I guess. Classic novels of the Pacific States of America Bethlehem, John Steinbeck A Sojourner There, Joan Didion
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    A Shining Valley - The Great Desert Lake in California

    Thanks! Alternate cuisine is a great way of showing the different ways culture can spread through a place, I think. I'd love to see what music and literature are like in this world. Has the presence of a large Hispanophone territory in the US bolstered its positioning as a creator of...
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    A Shining Valley - The Great Desert Lake in California

    That post made me very hungry. That aside, seriously great work so far.
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes V (Do Not Post Current Politics Here)

    I haven't seen a lot of content based on alternate-history novels around here. Here's a couple from my timeline:
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes V (Do Not Post Current Politics Here)

    It's been a while since I've had something good to post here. The China of Man in the High Castle is...not a very happy place.
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    Ann Aenglikonagur þeddr

    The modern form of 'Wales' in modern Scandinavian languages is a loan from English, not an English loan from ON. 'Welsh' is cognate to ON valskr, which means 'Celtic/Roman/foreigner in general', but it originated independently from its own Old English root, with much the similar meaning. (Fun...
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    Tellurus: a worldbuilding project

    I'm interested in the Cuyan civilization...it seems like it's a bit on the 'edge of the Earth' and makes me feel like they have the potential for Polynesian-style expansion, except instead of a thousand small islands they have a whole continent for themselves.
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    What would a united Communist Korea look like?

    I really doubt it. North Korea was for much of the early postwar history more prosperous than South Korea, which itself was under a military dictatorship, and the lack of a southern foe in my opinion would serve as a fundamental difference that would obviate the need for the DPRK to ever develop...
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    Names for a Korean Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin and Liaoning

    Another possibility is getting the name from Ainu—mosir ('land' or 'island') could be interpreted in Korean as being the name of the island, thus leading to the Koreans calling it something like Mosildo ("island island"...this happens all the time).
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    Names for a Korean Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin and Liaoning

    With two of the small regions of the Balhae Kingdom within Primorye known as Anbyeon and Anwon respectively, 安州/Anzhou (Chinese)/Anju (Korean) feels like a realistic name for the larger area, especially as it was also the name of one of the towns in Anbyeon.
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes V (Do Not Post Current Politics Here)

    Spreading the gospel of Ignatieff to everyone also means spreading electoral failure to everyone. It comes with the territory.
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