Viivo (was Re: a semi-paranoid question)

In a message dated 2000:09:18 2:29:17 PM, nicole.eap@SNET.NET writes:

>'kay, I got a few questions 'bout Vivo, maybe you've answered them
>already and I've missed them, so if so, sorry...
>
>Every time you post a sentence/phrase I wonder about the orthography --
>and about the differences between the spoken and written languages,
>between which you usually make sure to differentiate.  Also, what are
>the phonological constraints of the language like?  Did they change
>during the con-history of the lang? (like, do you borrow some words from
>sources with certain mutilations then words that are supposed to be
>borrowed later have different ones because the phonology became more
>"liberal"?)
    I have been tackling the phonology on the fly and the orthography is my
attempt to be more phonemic in an aesthetic sense closer to an
Italian-lexifier pidgin with very dense polyglot substratum. Most pidgins &
creoles seem to favour the Germanic IPA-influenced Romanization (pidgin
phonemic) others - like Haitian Creole - have several competing Romance
etymological semi-phonetic systems.
    I am inventing my orthography somewhere between those extremes.

    More details later ... ::I am missing my IPA consonant cheat-sheet:::

>
>Also, have you posted much on the syntax of Vivo?  I'm most interested
>in this.
    I have indeed. TMA (tense-mood-aspect) system, a Viivo ruff-sketch of
prepositions with a query on prepositional systems and how they divide
semantic space, grammatical gender/numeralic classifier system in Viivo...

    czHANg

>>
>> other vocabulary that I came up with has some nice correlations:
>>
>>     _matta_  "matter"      _Maia-meme_  "materialism" (an ideology)
>>
>>     _littarii_ "(to) read"      _libarii_  "book(s)"
>>
>>     I swear it happened by chance...  I think must be doing something
>right
>> if these synchronicities keep poppin' up...