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Re: conlang t-shirt

From:Jay Bowks <jjbowks@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 2, 1999, 22:47
>>Rest assured, I fully expect that most of the auxlangs will not be in the >>final product. Esperanto and Europanto are about teh only ones likely to >>remain. > >Dear Fabian, >This is obviously a BAD BAD BAD idea, bud! >For one Volapuk is the essence of conlanging >not very recognizable if you know what I mean... >That Solresol was even in a major SciFi movie >that made millions upon millions... I still can't >get the jingle from Close encounters of the 3rd >kind out of mi mind for hours if I start whistling... > >Also Interlingua de IALA is one of the living >conlangs in active use throughout the world >today... If Europanto has even a place in the shirt >Goodness !!! Interlingua has a thousand fold >more right to appear... otherwise what is the >shirt for? To represent PRIDE in conlanging >or the STUPIDITY of making your own language? > >I for one vote for Pride!!! Put the Auxlangs in >or leave me out of it... I'm very serious on this >Fabian.... The press has paid attention to >conlanging through auxlangs for quite a while. >Even mention of my Ekspreso appeared in a >magazine... And Ekspreso is but a semi-serious >conlang... So leave them in. I sincerely hope >you change your mind on this otherwise it's >like Picasso's Guernica without the lines and >geometrics... a bunch of paint thrown at the painting, >some call this art, I say it's paint.... to me the lines >are just as much part of the composition... So leave >the auxlangs in... they are the lines to support the >artlangs in place... > >Separate the auxlangs if you will... and intermix them >but don't ignore them. > >_---_ jjbowks@cheshire.net >(ojo) >`\_/' http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks > > >