Re: conlang t-shirt

Europanto - Well, I like the idea. Seriously, IALs will be among the firs=
t
to go if I find that I need the space on the T-Shirt for our conlangs. Bu=
t
Esperanto deserves a place as the 'classically famous' conlang, and I thi=
nk
Europanto deserves a place for being that rarest of things, an auxlang th=
at
systematically takes the mickey out of auxlangs.

French - My best guess was "votre langue va ici", but then, what do I kno=
w?
Your offering is as good as any and better than most. "Votre langue soit
ici" seems ok, not quite sure why "que" is there. Do we have a native Fre=
nch
speaker to do this one?

---
Fabian ta' lajzar


----- Original Message -----
From: Don Blaheta <dpb@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: 26 October 1999 16:32
Subject: Re: Conlang T-shirt


Quoth Fabian:
> The following languages need a complete translation:
> French
I'm going to suggest

        Que votre langue   soit      ici
        *   your  language be-3S-sbj here
        "let your language be here"

, based on a shaky memory that the Antoinette jussive ("let them eat
cake") was done with the subjunctive (in this case, "soit").  But I'm
not 100% sure of it, which is why I'm posting it generally....
Alternatively, you could do

        Votre langue doit           =EAtre ici
                     ought/deserves be
        "your language ought to be here"

> @Europanto
Why??  Do we really need this on the shirt?

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