Re: T-shirts

>Here is a list of the langs that I have recieved for the second t-shirt.  If
>you want to be on it send my your text or pic and I'll put it together.
>If I have missed yours please send it. I'd like to get about 20 or so on
>this one.
Being new to the list, I didn't know a first shirt existed. Do you have a
picture of one? Are they still available? Did this first shirt use the same
quote?

>Fight Linguistic Extinction!
>Invent a Language!
In Asha'ille:

      Lláejivchet ne dasharríth lláirilon! Beravchet ne dasharríd!

      lláejiv -chet ne  dasharríth    lláirilon : berav  -chet ne  dasharríd
      fight    IMP  the language[adj] death     : create  IMP  the language

"Fight" <lláejiv> as in for a cause, not "fight" <áejiv> in a physical
sense. "Death" <lláirilon> could also conceivably be translated as "the
state of having been forgotten." A short digression into Asha'illen
culture: the Cresaeans (the species that first spoke Asha'ille;
"Asha'illens" refers to anyone who speaks Asha'ille) are telepathic and
place a high value on remembering people. They have formal ceremonies where
everyone remembers all the people they can, so that their memories are
fresh in the collective memory. Cresaeans do feel sad when someone dies,
since that person won't be doing new things to remember them by, but they
feel it is _much_ more tragic for someone to die out of the collective
memory. The other word for "death" <krilorid> describes the body's physical
death only.

In Gharchove:

      Agóv'chi at n-desarét-krelórad! Beráv'chi n-desaréd!

      agóv  -chi at  n-  desarét-      krelórad : beráv  -chi n-  desaréd
      fight  IMP you the language[adj] death    : create  IMP the language

The Kegharn (those who originally spoke Gharchove) do not make the same
distinctions for "fight" and "death" that the Cresaeans do. In both
transliterations, accents mark stress as in Spanish.

I'm still working on making a graphic version of these phrases in their
native scripts. I'll keep you posted.


--
Arthaey

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