Simviation Forum - King Louis

Reply #15 - Apr 1^st, 2004 at 12:38pm

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True ........ Grin

Just to think if there had been a TRUE King Louis then I might have been related Shocked

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Reply #16 - Apr 1^st, 2004 at 12:40pm

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If we had had a real king louis we would all be speaking French....

Will

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Reply #17 - Apr 1^st, 2004 at 12:48pm

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If we had had a real king louis we would all be speaking French....

Will

Not necessarily so. George I (1714-27 AD).
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His character and mannerisms were strictly German; he never troubled himself to learn the English language, and spent at least half of his time in Hanover.

http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon53.html

Apart from a few common words like "Ja" & "Nein" I speak no German whatsoever. Roll Eyes

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Reply #18 - Apr 1^st, 2004 at 12:56pm

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Having said that we are talking about a man who was "King" before the formation of a real English National identity. At this time the Nobles were speaking a corrupt Norman French and the commons Old English. It wasn't until Richard II that English was recognised as the national tongue.

Had the heir to the French throne gained the English throne first he may well have moved the capital back to France and made us simply a "department" of the larger nation. This would result in French being the primary tongue and the Latin legal system being enforced.

We had had nearly 350 years practice before George I came over and by that time the absolute power of the monarchy had already passed.

We could argue about this all day and still never get anywhere. LOVE IT!!!

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Reply #19 - Apr 1^st, 2004 at 1:00pm

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Having said that we are talking about a man who was "King" before the formation of a real English National identity. At this time the Nobles were speaking a corrupt Norman French and the commons Old English. It wasn't until Richard II that English was recognised as the national tongue.

Had the heir to the French throne gained the English throne first he may well have moved the capital back to France and made us simply a "department" of the larger nation. This would result in French being the primary tongue and the Latin legal system being enforced.

We had had nearly 350 years practice before George I came over and by that time the absolute power of the monarchy had already passed.

I see where you're coming from.*

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*Pity really as this is my sort of argument. Tongue

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Reply #20 - Apr 1^st, 2004 at 1:04pm

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That's why I love it so much. It is truely entertaining and utterly without any recognisable point Grin

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Reply #21 - Apr 1^st, 2004 at 1:09pm

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I always suspected that I am of Norman descent. I found French no trouble to learn & it was by far my best subject at school. The trouble was that once I'd left it was even easier to forget. Shocked

I can no longer hold any sort of conversation in French. Roll Eyes

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Reply #22 - Apr 1^st, 2004 at 1:17pm

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Im a true mongrel.... My fathers side of the family can be traced back to Mauritius via France and my Mothers side was originally Scottish shipped to Ireland.
Im sure if I looked closely enough into the family history I could claim many nationalities. Grin

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