Re: I won't start a flame warRe: Conlang T-Shirt

In a message dated 11/6/1999 12:03:18 PM, scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET writes:

>Raymond Brown wrote:
>>
>> At 7:36 pm -0500 5/11/99, Nik Taylor wrote:
>> >I don't understand why, if this is a CONLANG T-shirt, a shirt that's
>> >supposed to represent the list, we're considering putting natural
>> >languages
>>
>> Eh?? I know I've missed most of this thread, but is Nik saying that natural
>> languages are being put on the Conlang T-shirt?
>>
>> As there are quite literally thousands of natural languages, won't the
>> shirt get a bit oversized?  This can't be serious.
>
>I, too, am wondering how this is going to be achieved, Fabian.  After
>all,
>there are not only our names and texts, but there are our scripts as
>well.
>Shouldn't this be a CONLANG t-shirt?
Our names are going to be on it??
On natlangs.... Of course we're not putting on thousands of them, but
shouldn't we have one or several so people actually know what the phrase
means? Or should they have to ask and have us tell them?

Josh Roth
http://members.aol.com/fuscian