On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:40:13 -0500, Anonymous
<anyone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>random internet observation
>
>Once in a blue moon I'll do an eBay search on the term "conlang" and
>for years I have never gotten any hits. But now there's a guy selling
>unimaginative "got conlanging?" T-shirts on eBay. (Along with "got
>feathers?" and "got tuba?" shirts, among others.) What a dimwitted way
>to try to turn other peoples' special interests into income.
Yeah. It's one of those deals where you can stick _anything_ after
"got" and while I don't pretend to know what it means, apparently you
have some kind of recognisable pop t-shirt. As you say, unimaginative!
The REAL Conlang t-shirts are much nicer, designed by an actual
conlanger and with conlang samples submitted by actual conlangers. Go
to cafepress and search for "conlang" to find them. There's also
Lojban, Interlingua and a general conlanger t-shirt.
>Anyway I guess "conlang" and "conlanging" are especially real words now
>that they've appeared on eBay. Notify the lexicographers.
I guess it will be just a matter of time until the word _does_
actually make it into a dictionary.
Fight linguistic extinction! -- invent a language! Now, go buy the
t-shirt!
Padraic
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