2004 notes ordinals Forming ordinal numbers with -um instead of -a was a dumb idea. So, I'm reverting back to -a: yuna = first, dusa = second, etc. This makes -um available to serve as an ending for polysyllabic nouns. -enda or -inda/-onda If -nd- is really an infix then active participles should look like, for example, lopinda for intransitive verbs and beronda for transitive verbs. The transitivity-ignoring -enda has been a part of Vorlin for a long time, and it has cognates in many indoeuropean languages, but I'm drifting toward a belief that using -inda and -onda would be more internally consistent. a few rough spots needing to be sandpapered The affixes -iz-, -uc-, -oz- still worry me. Because i and o are right next to each other on the QWERTY keyboard, -iz- and -oz- are too similar as far as typo detection/prevention is concerned. Also -uc- sounds somewhat ugly. Since moderation is the philosophy of Vorland, the affix that denotes the moderative aspect should have a pleasant sound. A pleasant sound would encourage more frequent use of the moderative aspect, which might influence the mind to think more moderate thoughts. From the possible word mez (moderation) one could make -ez- or -emz-. (This would produce the fun word mezeze or mezemze meaning "moderation to a moderate degree," or "all things in moderation, including moderation.") Another thing that bothers me is the causative infixes. At some point in Vorlin's development there was a good morphological reason for having two different affixes, one for transitive verbs and the other for intransitives. I'm drifting toward a belief that one suffix would be better than two affixes, and perhaps sk would be more pleasant than ks. So, if -sko became the causative suffix, haj-iks-o would become haji-sko and hav-aks-o would become havo-sko. these changes are not changes Do not view these modifications as changes in the grammar of Vorlin. Think of them as evolution in a handful of vocabulary items.

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