steve rice wrote:
> Background:
> In one series, I have a post-apocalyptic setting. (This is the one
> where Eo is the international language of scholarship.) Following a
> dark age of unknown duration, English, etc., have changed into New
> English, New Spanish, and so on. The old languages are called "True"
> English, Spanish...
> 
> Now "Spanish" and "hispanic" are very broad terms at this point,
> usually referring to any culture or group that hadn't assimilated to
> mainsteam US (and even some that more or less did). Basically, if you
> aren't obviously black or white, you're hispanic. And "New Spanish"
> is likewise a bit of an amalgam. Though strongly influenced by
> Spanish, it has creolized.
> 
> Problem:
> In my prequel-in-progress _The New Dawn_, we actually encounter New
> Spanish as spoken by Jaime, who has a lesser role in _The Gate of
> Hell_. I had been using LFN for New Spanish, but it has a few
> features that are a bit of a stretch. Among other things, adjectives
> frequently (even usually) have the feminine form, even though I would
> expect the masculine to predominate. There are also a few unlikely
> forms (last I checked, "today" was It oji). Should I
> 
> 1. use LFN anyway?
> 2. tweak it?
> 3. go ahead and create something else?
> 4. find a workable alternative elsewhere?
> 
> (I am hoping for a lazy solution, if possible.)
> 
You could drag LFN towards Spanish.