Re: Collaborative conlang - Third time's the charm?
| From: | Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 9, 2008, 18:02 |
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Replies interleaved:
--- On Thu, 10/9/08, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
> From: Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>
> and another project from longer ago. I
> don't recall the name.)
>
> Madjal, right?
>
YES, that was it!
<snip>
> Periodic recruiting drives on CONLANG and ZBB and perhaps
> other fora might help, too, when some of the first group of
> enthusiasts drop out; and it would help to find a way to
> make it
> easy for new participants coming in late to get up to speed
> on the language as quickly as possible.
Good idea.
<snip>
> I'll volunteer to render the tutorial sentences and so
> forth into Esperanto,
> and publicize the project in suitable Esperanto fora; maybe
> in Toki Pona
> as well. Not sure how long it will take, probably 2 weeks
> or more given
> my other responsibilities at the moment. If no native
> speaker of French
> volunteers by the time I finish the Esperanto version,
> I'll take a stab at
> translating stuff into French as well.
That would be fantastic!!!
> It might be best if, on the tutorial sentences and
> dictionary pages, you add
> some interface for people to contribute additional glosses
> and translations of
> the sample sentences in additional natural and constructed
> languages.
Excellent idea. I'll play around with some ideas for that.
> I agree with Herman's idea of making it easy to link
> dictionary
> words and sample sentences to various online resources that
> would ease the burden of translating everything into
> multiple languages,
> and make it easier for new people to get up to speed even
> if not
> everything has rendered into their native language yet.
Playing around with the forum I discovered two interesting things. First, I can embed
animated images in the posts, and second, I can link words in sample sentences
back to the post that introduces the word, along with it's picture. For
Herman's word "vola" I included an animated gif of a bird flapping it's wings
in flight. I also included the sample sentence "Tori ET vola." with the word
"tori" linked back to the post that introduced it with a picture of what a
"tori" looks like.
View the sample post at:
<http://fiziwig.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=14#p14>
--gary
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