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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