Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Witty slogan

Hanuman Zhang wrote:
> on 3/10/06 12:28 AM, Adam Walker at carrajena@YAHOO.COM wrote:
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>>How about "Celebrate diversity.  Invent a language."
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> Oh tha's niceness. I like this one. A lot.
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> OR howabout "Create Further Diversity - Invent Some Language."    eh, 0_o?
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At least we've got a diversity of slogans to pick from!

Now that I think about it, I like this general pattern better than the
"your world, your language" type of pattern. I came to this realization
when I saw something on a sign at Subway today while I was getting lunch
-- something like "your taste, your choice" (I don't remember the exact
words). Maybe designing a language is a little like deciding what you
want on your sandwich, but it's a pretty big sandwich in that case.

I do think that "design" is a better description of the sort of things
most of us do with language than "invent", though. I know that "invented
language" is -- or used to be -- a standard term for conlangs, but I
don't think it's the best word.

I also see that when I translated "Fight linguistic extinction" into
Tirelat it came out as "Resist language-devastation". I could have used
a more active word for "fight", or "combat", with the root zhreva-
instead of d'baha-, which means "resist" or "hold back". But that's the
way I was interpreting it at the time.