Well there's an issue with that, UK English already had tons of german and french influence in it's vocabulary and German with it's grammar.More German or French influence?
What PoDs would be required for this and a minimum of how much earlier?Earlier colonization.
What about combining those with American annexation of Cuba and/or more of Mexico?Well there's an issue with that, UK English already had tons of german and french influence in it's vocabulary and German with it's grammar.
So I doubt either of these things would drastically change the language, due to well if they were a 'match made in heaven' and naturally blended, they would have already on the old world.
I mean I guess with mass french or german immigration and somehow avoiding the 'Become culturally anglo' pressure that happened OTL to Germans, italians and jews you could maybe get a mixed vocabulary.
Then that might work.What about combining those with American annexation of Cuba and/or more of Mexico?
Quebec joining the American Revolution and French being given co-official status in the Constitutional Convention?I'm not sure what POD you'd use to prevent that.
That could work, but even then you'd also have to deal with the other languages of Spanish and the German immigrints.Quebec joining the American Revolution and French being given co-official status in the Constitutional Convention?
What PoD is required to make the languages diverge enough to make them not fully intelligible or at least distinct?
That sounds ASB given OTL policy towards natives and the fact that native americans suffered an apocalypse from disease just decades previously wiping out 90% of them, few at the time had a written language system and the policy was replacement, not incorporation.how about more native american influence in the language
Yeah, more Hispanic, German, and/or French influence on the US would be more realistic.That sounds ASB given OTL policy towards natives and the fact that native americans suffered an apocalypse from disease just decades previously wiping out 90% of them, few at the time had a written language system and the policy was replacement, not incorporation.
You'd need some PoD to make US more accepting of natives and even then it'd be hard to have them recover to the point of having a large impact on language.
Indeed.This is OTL. If you disagree, get a dozen or so Brits and Yanks in the same room, suggest tabling a motion, and sit back to watch the chaos.