Re: CHAT: t-shirt

Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>
> Dan Seriff wrote:
> > 3. If you can read this, you must be on CONLANG.
>
> Not so good because it contains an intranslatable proper name, but it
> works.
I was thinking something like "the group of language construction", and
then contracting it.

> > 4. Isn't this shirt cool?
>
> Hardly works, because the idiom "cool" is almost impossible to translate
> other than by borrowing.
It doesn't necessarily have to be borrowed. Every language that I know
of has some way to express "coolness", or more generally, something
really good.

> Creating languages is fun.
> Guess you don't know this language?
>
> > I would also suggest that we include a packet with interlinears &
> > translations to be shipped along with each shirt.
>
> Good idea.  You should always know what's written on your shirt!
> Otherwise, things can become pretty awkward when someone asks what it
> means...
>
> >       Kinkos can make
> > hundreds of copies for supercheap.
>
> Who's Kinkos?
They're a 24 hour photocopy place.

> Jörg.
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