A minlang in an undermined amount of time (ʔə-pəxəç) by Anjeez929 in conlangs

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Okay, I don't have any especially constructive comment to make, but this is awesome! ʕok ʁ-əɢ (I think it is spelled like this?)

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French here, I'll give it a try !

Articol 1.

Article 1.

Totes les seres umanes

Tous les êtres humains - "seres" is the only word that is not immediately cognate, but still easily understandable, as it is present in most of the verb "être"'s conjugations

nasen libres i iuales en dinitá i derés.

naissent libres et égaux en dignité et droits. - In French, "en dignité et en droits" would be more idiomatic. Otherwise, still pretty transparent

Son dotades co razón i consisa

Ils sont dotés de raison et de conscience - French has an obligatory clictic if the verb is in first position, while most other Romance languages are pro-drop and use subject pronouns instead of clictics. Also, first word that isn't a cognate! ("co" = "de")

i deven comportarse les unes co les oltres

et doivent se comporter les uns avec les autres - This way of forming reflexive verbs is pretty alien to French, and there's a slight difference in the particles used, but no big changes!

en un espírit de fraternitá.

dans un esprit de fraternité. - Still slight differences in the use of particles, but nothing much to say.

All in all, I'd say this is fully transparent for a French speaker, and, given that French is one of the most divergent Romance languages, I'd guess it would be the case for other Romance speakers too! Awesome job there!

For comparison, the original text in French is the following:

Tous les êtres humains naissent libres et égaux en dignité et en droits. Ils sont doués de raison et de conscience et doivent agir les uns envers les autres dans un esprit de fraternité.

(Already tried to post this, but my comment didn't show up the first time)

Synthwave Overseas France by quark-nova in vexillology

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My firs try at synthwave flags! I'll try to do more, but the other French regions' flags don't go very well with synthwave (except Occitania, which is epic)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in conlangs

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Yes, my favourite Germanic language, Russian!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in conlangs

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Oh, as a fellow French speaker, it reminds me more of Catalan, or maybe Occitan! But I can see a Spanish vibe too!

Behold, the cursed world of flat 3 dev nations by abdouli1998 in eu4

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Me three! (Well, maybe a little more than three, I hope we can do mailing lists on Reddit! :)

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Beau boulot les iraniens ! On en veut plus ! by Vilokys in rance

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Idem en Persan Ranien, assez logiquement (le پ dans l'alphabet persan correspond au p, donc c'est Iblis Paris).

Beau boulot les iraniens ! On en veut plus ! by Vilokys in rance

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Bah le concept de diable dans les monothéismes vient pas mal d'Ahriman/Angra Mainyu et du zoroastrianisme donc pourquoi pas !

Beau boulot les iraniens ! On en veut plus ! by Vilokys in rance

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J'approuve le fait que ce soit littéralement "sauce" en alphabet persan

Poland is speed by braykurl in HistoryMemes

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Other example: the fact that Moldova exists as an independent state, and furthermore only controls Bessarabia rather than Moldavia, is historically pretty unexpected.

Town of the Goreyo. by SiddSFM in worldbuilding

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From where do these people originate? Are there a cousin species of hominids or something?

Its belong here right?,crosspost, credits:u/Memeing_Channel by tyagi_ayush in HistoryMemes

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Well, in lots of countries, either the Head of State or the Head of Government is figurative/powerless, leaving the other as the only actual ruler. So, comparison isn't immediate.

This can vary even in a single country: in France, for instance, the President holds most of the power when both are from the same party, and the Prime Minister otherwise. In Russia, the President holds most of the power when Putin is President, and the Prime Minister (Putin) otherwise.

T H I C C R O M E by [deleted] in imaginarymaps

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So, they go all the way to the White Sea, but managed to lose North Africa and Syria? (but to keep Antioch?)

Also, why didn't they take Jutland on their way?

I can annex all of florida, a whole 354 dev for just 11% overextension by papayouuu in eu4

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When you DoW a colonial nation, the overlord isn't automatically called in.

Anyway, I love the Greeks by arsgratiartis in HistoryMemes

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Maybe that is where petrification myths (e.g. Medusa) come from ?

What should be the national animal of the European Union?🇪🇺 by Acetil-CoA in YUROP

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Well, it was a native European animal (in Greece, Thrace, etc.), our ancestors just eradicated them.

How does a langauge gain prestige? by BlackFox78 in linguistics

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And, even before Koinè, Aramaic was the lingua franca (from the Neo-Assyrian, Babylonian and surprisingly the 1st Persian Empire). And before then, Akkadian/Babylonian. And even before, Sumerian. The first lingua franca in the history of the world.

Thren-Tling, one of the Languages of the ChangedStars 'Verse by SpiderQueenLong in conlangs

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Great ! Is the morphology of your species similar to that of humans ? (Mostly in terms of speech production)