Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Witty slogan

Roger Mills wrote:
> (snipping Sai's fwd.)
>
> Hmm, AFAIK the original slogan was always meant to be _tongue in cheek_, and
> I'm sure we all recognize the tragedy of real language extinction. Be that
> as it may, it is an inevitable process, with many examples in recorded human
> history (and probably even more in the unrecorded past). I consider myself
> as PC as the next person, but sometimes one needs to lighten up.
>
> Actually, I was quite taken with the motto proposed the other day--
> "Your world, your language, your rules".
>
I like this one a lot as well. Maybe I'll think about translating it
into one of my newer languages and using it in place of the old Tirelat
version of the slogan on my green ribbon page:

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/green-ribbon.html

(where I see that it was J Y S Czhang who came up with the original slogan.)

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