Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Witty slogan
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 13, 2006, 8:56 |
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staving Adam P.:
>On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:23:47 -0500, Dana Nutter <sasxsek@...> wrote:
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> >Or maybe "Do you speak *MY* language?"
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>I like this one best. It's catchy, since it sort of spoofs the common
>corporate-ish "We Speak Your Language" slogan. It pokes the softest of fun
>at both auxlang zealotry ("Will you speak my language? Please?") and
>artlang/personal language iconoclasm ("My language is mine alone!"). So
>we're all equally implicated in self-deprecation. :)
However, it does bring the follow-up,
"...He just smiled, and gave me a Vegemite sandwich," to mind.
Pete (who will now have to listen to a prog rock album to stop that song
going round his head all day)
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