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> > I noticed some changes in vocabulary, "dog" is now an Irish dog!, and > there is a new construct for demonstrative pronuouns. > > Changing basic vocabulary like dog is not as big as it may seem. 40 > years ago I spoke a language and several of its dialects in the > Malayo-Polynesian branch of languages. Basic words like "dog" and > "girl" differed dramatically from dialect to dialect, but it was > surprisingly easy to adapt to. Still, I was wondering if a lot of > changes to basic words are being reviewed, or if it is mainly an > effort to add to the lexicon at this point. I changed kanin to gayr because kanin seems to be more appropriate for 'rabbit,' and it at least looks like rabbit to some germanic speakers, I think. And the demonstratives have always been in flux. Originally, I had tci/tca/tcu for here, there, yonder, and then I tried to standarise them with tco and tce, which mean 'what has just been said' and 'what is about to be said.' I've now decided that was a bad idea, and that they should have their original meanings, and the pronouns should derive from them with ba and sa.