From: Mat McVeagh (matmcv@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 01:35:13 EST
>From: "Christian Thalmann" <cinga@gmx.net>
>
>Anyway, I realize the story is both (1) far-fetched and implausible
>and (2) isolationist, precluding any contact with other cultures,
>which isn't too interesting.
>
>I've been trying to come up with better explanations, but so far
>I haven't succeeded. Any ideas? =P
I hadn't thought before that it might be a *revived* CL rather than one
carrying on from ancient Rome. If you are prepared to at least start it on
Earth it could be as follows: towards the end of the Roman empire, a party
of patrician Romans who could still speak Classical Latin escaped from the
collapsing empire to a place of relative safety - I would suggest North
Africa. There they found a new colony, which maintains the classical form of
the language as a riposte to the triumph of the common form of the language
in the old empire.
I don't know how it gets to Jupiter tho... maybe if you continue that colony
as a surviving country in Ill Bethisad, and eventually it joins in space
exploration.
>-- Christian Thalmann
Mat
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