Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Witty slogan

Hallo!

Sai Emrys wrote:

> I got this email in re. the slogan. Am forwarding it moreorless intact
> but anonymized; the writer is welcome to take credit for it if zie
> wishes to, of course. I think it's cogent enough on its own.
>
> Personally, I disagree (but understand this person's point), for
> reasons I think it best not to elaborate on right now. But... I (per
> usual) have a fairly unusual perspective on the subject I suppose -
> and this would be one of those cases where I want to take a somewhat
> removed view from my peronal opinions, and put on my more
> organizational / objective hat.
>
> I don't want to be seriously offensive to anyone, but also want to
> know that this isn't an isolated reaction. Any of the rest of you have
> some comment on this?
>
> For that matter, can anyone give an etymology of the motto? I don't
> know whom to credit for it.
I'd say that I can understand the objection all too well.  Of course,
conlanging does nothing to prevent the death of natlangs; and while
the slogan surely never was meant to belittle the problem of massive
language extinction in the real world, it may well be considered
offensive by people professionally concerned with preserving as much
of the real world's linguistic diversity as they can, and I'd say it is
indeed badly chosen.  I never was much of a fan of this slogan anyway
because it makes fun of a very serious matter.

I really like Larry's suggestion "Create a language - create a world!".

Greetings,

Jörg.

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