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

Don Blaheta wrote:
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> Quoth Nik Taylor:
> > 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 or languages invited by people not on this list.
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I have my reasons, cited in another post.

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I'd say I dislike your selection of auxlangs.

Better to leave them out, or include *my* favorite, Occidental,
which is likely the most recognizeable.
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Like it or not, Esperanto shall be present. I don't care what you think on
that point. Otherwise...

-hey fred, cool T-shirt! Whats it about?
-its about artificial languages...
-so wheres that famous one, whats it called, Esperanto?
-well, actually...

See? Esperanto is one or the more famous conlangs around. General awareness
of Occidental in teh non-conlanging community is only marginally greater
than the general awareness of my own Demuan language.

I am not entertaining such arguments on which auxlangs may be included.
However, I did invite people to send me descriptions of these
romance-aux-langs so that I could make a better judgement about which ones
might be excluded if necessary. So far, no one has sent such a description
in a readable format.

If you truly want a particular auxlang on it, describe it to me. For most,
all I have is teh translation.

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Fabian
Jkun li dik il-kitba tpatti it-tieba ta' qalb ta' patruni tieghi.
Jkun li ttaffi ugigh tal-Mitlufin u tal-Indannati.
Jkun li ilkoll li jaqraw il-kitba, qalbhom ihobbu is-Sewwa u l-Unur.
U b'dak l'ghamil, nithallas tax-xoghol iebes.