Re: Relay using somebody else's conlang (Was: Re: Fifth Conlang Translation Relay finished!)

Roger Mills wrote:

> H.S.Teoh wrote:
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>>On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:30:27AM -0800, Bob Greenwade wrote:
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>>>At 07:05 AM 1/10/02 ?, Philip Newton wrote:
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>>>>Or would it be considered impolite to submit a relay part in a conlang
>>>>that is not one's own?
>>>>
>>>   Just yesterday I was pondering the idea of suggesting that someone
>>>start a relay where that would be the rule (use someone else's conlang,
>>>with little or no help from the creator).  This might be handy in letting
>>>those of us who have our conlangs posted on the Web to see how well we've
>>>explained our ideas....  ;-]
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>>[snip]
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>>Cool idea! Though you might end up with several people begging to use one
>>popular conlang like Sally's Teonaht :-) But I say go for it anyway. It's
>>about time we learned each other's conlangs :-)
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> It is a neat idea, and a good incentive to get my lengthy Kash dictionary
> into my website.  (Oh the work.....!)  But I think our fellow member Mr.
> Keenan might inform us of the _Conlangs in Use_ list that he runs on
> Yahoo......The idea is that two people agree to (try to) learn each others'
> conlangs.  (I haven't participated, but others have.....)
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>>You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. --
>>azephrahel
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> So that's my problem!! ;-)
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> In a similar vein:  in a long-ago NYTimes Mag. article about Truman Capote,
> his lover Jack Dunphy said of them:  "We traveled the whole world, and
> stayed young for a very long time."
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