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

H.S.Teoh wrote:


>On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:30:27AM -0800, Bob Greenwade wrote:
>> At 07:05 AM 1/10/02 ?, Philip Newton wrote:
>> >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....  ;-]
>[snip]
>
>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 :-)
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.....)

>You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. --
>azephrahel
So that's my problem!! ;-)

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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