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Hi all,
I've been hoping to get some issues resolved before my turn in the 
romlang relay. I can always make snap decisions, but I hate putting 
things into a relay text that have to be taken out of the language 
later.

Some of the issues are:
* The language has no name yet.

This is a very generic language, spoken in an alternate universe. 
From the standpoint of *here*, it's a mixture of features from 
different romance branches. So I don't know where it's spoken.

One gimmick I'm using is that some of the sound changes are applied 
retroactively to words borrowed from written Latin.

* There are some sound changes I'd like to confirm first.
Unlike French, Spanish, etc. one thing I want to do is keep the 
development of VL tj (tz, dz, zz) distinct from cj and fronted c (c
[e], g[e], ss). I think at least some varieties of Italian do this?
VL dj will still merge with gj (g[e], s), and fronted g with j.

* I need to decide on a number of pronoun forms.
The main problem is Masc. Sing. and Situational of 3rd person and 
demonstratives.
I have:
----------  3rd P. IndSpec DefNonS Demon1  Demon2  Demon3
Masc. Sing. ill    ist     iss     quist   quiss   quill
Femin Sing. ella   esta    essa    questa  quessa  quella
Situational ell    est     ess     
Masc. Plur. elles  estes   esses   questes quesses quelles
Femin Plur. ellas  estas   essas   questas quessas quellas

(I hope that's readable; I know the Yahoo archives will be mangled)
IndSpec = Indefinite Specific
DefNonS = Definite Non-specific
I don't really like the forms with |i| in them, but that's need to 
distinguish them (some of them) from the situational forms, which I 
also don't like; |est| looks like the 3ps copula.

* I need to decide on some of the verb inflections.

This is already enough for now I think.

Jeff