Re: 4 days to go

Sorry to be entirely pedantic and me-like... but how does inventing a
language fight linguistic extinction? Indeed, wouldn't it *promote* it?
If there are more languages in existence, they are more able to become
it; if Joe Bloggs was going to learn Nearly Dead Language or he could
invent a conlang, the invention of the conlang could cause Nearly Dead
Language to become Extinct Language... and poorly-documented too, so it
couldn't be revived.

Or, from another perspective, the more languages there are in existence,
the more there are that can become extinct. Indeed, conlangs rarely have
a speaking population of but one... and although I guess you could say
that because the conlang never lived, it didn't become extinct, but you
could also say that it was stillborn, and a child born still is just as
dead as a dead 83-y.o.

So, not to be purely a complainer, I'll suggest 'Promote Linguistic
Diversity... Invent a Language!'.

:P

Tristan

Mario Bonassin wrote:

>There is 4 days to go until I lock down the T-shirt image this time around.
> If you want to be on it get me your translation.  In case you don't know it
>by now its
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>Fight lingusitic extinction!
>Invent a Language!
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>If you have a script email me a pic of it, or just send the text.
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>Thanks
>Mario
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