Re: Die, x-langer scum!

How come this thread was only about artlangers when I posted my Tairezazh
version?

Anyways, that was _Shan zdair gez, tshófen laistsladh!_ "You should die,
artlanging fools!". To effectively contrast artlangers against auxlangers, I
don't think _laistslaiel_ "language creator", where _zlaiel_ "creator" has
artistic connotations, is a good word for artlanger.

Well, _laistel_ "languager" is no worse Tairezazh than "-langer" is English*,
so I'd just need to come up with a couple of decent prefixes for "art-"
and "aux-". The stem _ard_ "help" kind of suggests itself for "aux-", but I
don't really know what to do for "art-", since I don't have a word for "Art"
yet. The best I can think of without inventing any new roots is the
aforementioned root _zla-_ "to create", which suggests *_Zlast_ as possible
word for "Art". So, tentatively we could have _zlalaistel_ for "artlanger" and
_ardlaistel_ for "auxlanger".

So:

_Shan zdair gez, zlalaisteltshófen!_ "You should die, artlanger fool!"

and:

_Shan zdair gez, ardlaisteltshófen!_ "You should die, auxlanger fool!"

Feel insulted ...

* Altho' it could be interpreted as "becausegirl", whatever that means.

                                                    Andreas

PS Czhang, if you're readin this, what do you feel about being a
linguamangling artbecausegirl? Is it preferable to being a helpbecausegirl?

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