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Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium
So...what was Clodius Pulcher like at parites?
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Bit tedious, actually.
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Originally Posted by catalina_marina
I give up. What are Bayerischers? People from some other German state or something?
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Bayern is what the Germans call the State of Bavaria, so the Bayerischers are the people who live there. (Also BMW stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke.)
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I suppose I was mostly referring to the language, since Americans tend to come from pretty much all of Europe anyway... I wouldn't call the French Germanic, really. But if you're German, Dutch, British... Than yeah, all German.
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If you go back to Charlemagne and before, many of the tribes in what is now France were Germans -- Burgundians, Franks (hence the name "France"), Merovingians and all of those, not to mention the odd hordes of Visigoths, Vandals and the like passing through -- and the rest were Celts who had been to a greater or lesser degree Romanized pre-4th century. It's only from Charlemagne onward that you begin to get a distinctly French national character, and even then you had Vikings (North Germanic) all over the place for a few hundred years adding to the mix.