Re: Conlangs on T-Shirts, etc.

> From: nicole perrin
>
> Dan Seriff wrote:
> >
> > callanish wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > A friend of mine just pointed a website out to me that I
> thought some of you
> > > might be interested in for the fun of it. It's called Cafe Press
> > > (www.cafepress.com), and they give you in essence a little
> online store which
> > > sells T-shirts, mugs, and mousepads with your own designs on
> them -- you just
> > > provide them with a graphic (GIF, JPEG, or BMP). I thought
> this could have
> > > excellent fun potential for conlangers -- imagine people
> walking around
> > > wearing T-shirts with slogans in dozens of conlangs, or
> drinking coffee or
> > > tea (or my own preferred hot beverage, hot chocolate) out of
> a mug decorated
> > > with the flag of you con-nation, or whatever.
> >
> > Actually, we tried this last year, but the process broke down in
> > bickering over exactly which auxlangs should be included on the shirt. I
> > myself was kind of pissed of, since I didn't think that *any* auxlangs
> > should be included unless they were created by listmembers. I'd offer to
> > re-start the t-shirt process myself, but I've hardly got time to
> > practice piano these days. I'd love to see it happen again, though, now
> > that my languages are at a better state of development.
>
> As a matter of fact, I was thinking about starting it up again, or at
> least finding out if everyone was still interested in the project.  I
> thought it might be a good tenth anniversary project, as I think the
> general consensus a few months ago was to count next year as the tenth
> year of the list.

I still think that this is a great idea.  Hopefully we can do it this time
without the auxlang vs. natlang vs conlang meltdown that marred and
ultimately killed the last effort.

David

David E. Bell
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