I've been meaning to ask this for a while, but once while messing with the custom nation creator, I find this french culture or Aquitanian, and look for it in the map, not finding anything, when I look at the wiki seeking something like "Aquitaine" I also find nothing. Is there any way to get it without culture conversion or custom nations?
I made a post on the forums about this and it didn't really get any attention; thought I'd toss the idea around here.
In short, I've noticed that in Imperator as of right now, the Aquitanians are erroneously part of the Celtic culture group and the Druidic religion. They were in reality a rather interesting pre-Indo-European ("Old European") people; the ancestors of today's Basques who spoke a language entirely unrelated to the other languages of Europe. Druids were not a part of their society, and their religion was unique from what we know of it, as well as entirely unrelated to the Indo-European pantheon unlike their Celtic neighbors.
Aquitania makes up at least ten (eyeballing screenshots of the map it looks to be something like thirteen) starting nations, and so much of the map is already Celtic & Druidic. I think this region deserves its own culture group and faith, and that acknowledging that in game could make playing in the area doubly immersive and interesting.
If "Hibernian" gets a unique culture group, with one playable nation on the island, which is in fact Celtic, why do the Aquitani get glossed over in this way?
I have these words, found from Aquitanian inscriptions on stones, so far:
adin: age, judgement (basque adin)
and: big (basque handi)
andere: lady, woman (basque andre)
artahe: holm oak (basque arte)
atta: father (basque aita)
belex: crow (basque bele)
bels: black (basque beltz)
berri: new (basque berri)
andox: lord
arix: oak (basque aritz)
bihox: heart (basque bihotz)
cison: man (basque gizon)
-co: diminutive (basque -ko)
corri: red (basque gorri)
hals: alder (basque haltza)
hana: brother (basque anaia)
har: male (basque ar)
hars: bear (basque hartz)
heraus: boar (basque herauts)
ilun: dark (basque ilun)
leher: pine (basque leher)
nescato: girl, young woman (basque neska[to])
oxson: wolf (basque otso)
sacur: dog (basque zakur)
sahar: old (basque zahar)
sembe: son (basque seme)
seni: boy (basque sein)
umme: child (basque ume)
Despite all these words we know of (and there are more), I can't find any books detailing onomastics and changes, so I don't see how I can... One rule I do see is that (Consonant)tz becomes (Consonant)s, like beltz is bels in Aquitanian, and haltza is hals. But when it's a vowel rather than a consonant, it becomes x, as in bihotz and aritz, which are bihox and arix. Words starting with "a" in Basque also seem to often be preceded by "h" in Aquitanian, but not always.
Is it possible that there was some language contact between these Pre-Indo-European groups? (Note: I am not suggesting that they are part of the same language family or group because there is no evidence of that at all). Is it possible some language contact happened?
I'm a student of musicology in trouble. I cannot understand how the Aquitanian school of polyphony was just allowed to change the music of the church so dramatically (I am talking about the melismatic organum). How come the Papacy didn't stop them? Before the Saint Martial school the style of parallel organum was considered a form of monophony rather than polyphony and I have understood that the free organum style in the 11th century was common only on the edges of the catholic world (and it really was not so different from parallel organum). So why and how did this suddenly become acceptable in the central part of catholic Europe in the 12th century? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glbYiXAwOWk
What would be the long and short term effects of this?
Judging from the Wikipedia article on Proto-Basque, the hypothesised sound changes from Proto Basque to modern Basque looks very consistent, and the overall change does not look very extensive. Then, looking at Aquitanian, the differences between Proto Basque and Aquitanian seems very consistent and relatively small for such a large time frame. So does this mean that someone could just turn back the sound changes from Basque and get Aquitanian? Could people speak a realistic approximation of Aquitanian through Basque?
I've been reading in several places, including the good old Wikipedia, about the Aquitanian language, which apparently was a language spoken in the Aquitaine region of France (southwestern France). According to the article the Aquitanian language was related to the Proto-Basque language (although there are doubts whether the Aquitanian was relatated to the Proto-Basque or if in fact it was Proto-Basque). In case it was a different, but related language, they (Proto-Basque and Aquitanian) would have made the "Vasconic languages" group. What do you know about all this?
Also, what do you think about the Vasconic substratum hypothesis that states that this "Vasconic languages family" would have extended through most of western Atlantic Europe (including the British Isles and part of Belgium) at some time before or during the Indo-European "invasion"?
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Synopsis
Veronica Crowe might’ve been the Chosen One seventeen years ago, but now she definitely isn’t. Day-drunk and selling stories of the war against the Shadowlord, she hardly remembers she was once a sorcerer. When the consequences of her own poor temper catch up to her, her former commanding officer, Lucien, offers her a lifeline: Teach remedial evocation at Banecroft Academy, the selfsame school for sorcerers she attended as a child when it was little more than a crumbling barrack.
Returning to Banecroft isn't easy. Climbing out of the bottle, even more so. Determined to finally make something of herself-- to not live, mired in the past and the war and the loss of her arm and leg-- Veronica vows to live up to his memory. To be the teacher who sets the exception to the rule for her students, whether they're the spoiled children of highborn nobility, or hopeless lonely orphans-- like she was.
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First Page >It should’ve been raining.
>Veronica Crowe marched on, her shawl long left abandoned on the ballroom floor. Road-worn feet punched through the tears in her hosiery. Each step of her prosthetic leg punctuated her limp with the click of a horseshoe on the pa
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Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
You take away their little brooms
There hasn't been a post all year!
