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I'm noodling with a bunch of ideas, one about what can be done to stabilize a language's phonetics over time, and immediately after a non-natlang's creation. I saw some one criticize engelangs in general because the carefully chosen compounds and morphemes that lock together so nicely today, in a living community would be subject might be subject to things like Grimm's law and over time the compound words would morph back into meaningless blobs. Is there an optimal phonetic inventory or phonotactics that resists the warping of people's lazy tongues? Anyhow, now that I can see the history, it looks like this list had a spam problem at one point, and message streams with spam tend to lose their audience. In case there's anyhow here, I look forward to your feedback. Matthew Martin