Re: I won't start a flame warRe: Conlang T-Shirt
| From: | Josh Roth <fuscian@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 7, 1999, 17:26 |
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In a message dated 11/7/1999 10:07:30 AM, fflores@ARNET.COM.AR writes:
>Josh Roth wrote:
>> 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?
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>I think that was the idea some of us had. Some natlangs showing
>different scripts, just to call for attention, so that someone
>finally asks 'Hey, what does it say there?'
Then again ... wouldn't the shirt call for attention just by having all those
conlangs with their different scripts? I don't see how natlangs would get it
more attention. And why would they have to ask what it says there if it's
already in translated into natlangs for them on the shirt?
Josh Roth
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