Re: CHAT: t-shirt
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 28, 2000, 4:28 |
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In a message dated 2000:09:27 2:34:32 PM, taliesin@NUTS.EDU writes:
>Great line but of course I can't translate it... thought I had a good
>word for "invent" but even if I substitute with some form of "make" I'd
>still not have a good one for "extinction" or that form of abstract
>"fight"... pity, no târuven on the shirt, oh well.
aw, just translate it in "Taruven terms" then... that would make it
interestinger anyways... that not all ConLangs (& NatLangs) have a one-to-one
semantic correspondence to other languages (& cultures) should be represented
on the t-shirt IMHO.
and it would be GREAT to have the closest possible Taruven paraphrase to
point this linguistic fact out...
czHANg
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