Linguistics discussion (split from new factions thread)

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you should write a book or do a documentary or something, i would read/watch it i look forward to future, interesting Germanic discussions of whatever topics and threads

yes, I am heading the Swēbōzez team for EB2, although not as active as one would hope, since I have other concerns currently. The Pre-Germanic Voice Mod still needs time for recording to be finished... hopefully will have an install for everybody for 1.2 before EB2. Come on now, we're not spilling any beans on a release date... certainly not done yet.

that is peculiar... I never put 'thrall' anywhere... in fact, i didn't know you could change the options for CONQUER / ENSLAVE ,ect.... do you use a different language version for RTW than English? is it possible that this aspects was missed by me concerning things that are changeable... I am guessing it is like the map and also the names of characters which had to be left to the original before me... what I am wondering now is what .txt that information is contained in, so i can check to see if that is something i never knew about.

btw, i would use 'theow' over 'thrall' and even then, 'sevant' doesn't nec. imply slavery- i agree, so good comment

my comment on the 'nationalism' is just because I assumed Germans would hate me for being American and I have spoken with Germans who thought I could never do work on Proto-Germanic and such simply because I'm an American... and believe me, I can understand why one would have doubt in Amercians researching the Old World too (I know some of the best books are only in German, French, ect. and the collections are simply not as easily available as in Europe- i have been lucky though and have imported some good books)... to my delightful surprise, most Germans appreciate that I don't portray the Germanic peoples as backward cavemen, so all you nice and thoughtful fans (whoever you are out there) are great to have as a fan-base, esp. in a Romano-Centric world - thanks all! it's also possible nobody knows enough to comment too, but just the same, I am surprised at how cool Europeans have been concerning this subject, which one would think might have some spark-flying potential