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* I have new shoes! A member of the club, S., had a pair that were too small for him.
* I think I'm going to work on the historical phonology for project Delta, construct a protolanguage (partially), and then work forward. The existing material will probably be reworked. For a start, some proposed vowel shifts:

*i  : i or 0
*e  : o or 0
*a  : o or 0
*o  : o or 0
*i: : i
*e: : e
*a: : a
*o: : u

Now I wonder how the four vowels + length system came about.

ETA: possibly preserve the original quality of short vowels when stressed.