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Re: T-shirts

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 11, 2002, 4:28
Arthaey Angosii wrote:


>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! >
Yes. (snip)
>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.
Very nice. Hope you won't mind if I steal/adapt something like that for the Kash, who are also telepathic, and don't really believe in an Afterlife.

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