Re: T-Shirt proposals

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Raymond Brown wrote:

> At 7:10 pm +0100 8/11/99, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> >How would you put it in Latin, Ray? My best attempt was 'Lingua hic
> >tua pona:tur'.
>
> If long vowels are marked, you should have 'hi:c'
>
> The Latin's correct, if you mean: "let your language be put here".
>
> But the word order is maybe a bit odd.  Difficult to see why 'hic' comes
> between 'lingua...tua'.  The unmarked word order is: 'lingua tua hic
> ponatur' (or 'tua lingua hic ponatur').  I guess we want to focus on _your
> language_.  The topic, I guess is the 'here on the T-shirt', so I suggest:
>
> Hi:c pona:tur lingua tua.
I think the reason for the odd placement of "hic" was that it scanned
better - my prosody is not what it used to be, but when I read them
all aloud I find that "hic ponatur lingua tua" scans best after all.

Isn't "ponatur" a little too definite, as if the language of whoever
reads it is magically put where the Latin is as soon as he puts it
on? :-)

   Irina


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