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Rather than the all too boring /si/-/no/ pair shared by most romlangs, I decided to go for different words to fill the slots in Jovian. In fact, I found there were more than two slots to differentiate between... Jovian now includes the following interjections: |oc| [Ax] "yes (it's true)" < HOC, |ae| [aj] "yea (I concur)" < AIO, |mere| [me:r] "does too! (to the contrary)" < IMMO VERO, |nau| [no] "no (it's false)" < NON, |ne| [ne:] "no (I veto)" < NEGO, |noe| [nAj] "don't!" < NOLI. As far as expletives go, I don't have much material yet. I recently noticed that the modifier fronting allows for some great-sounding phrases like |Iosu o Cristu!| ['i@zA,griSt], |Sante o Mare| [,sandA'va:r] or |Oembodinde o Dé!| [,ambA'dindA,ze:] -- Christian Thalmann