Re: Reverse Relay?

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Paul Bennett wrote:

> I'm probably premature on this one (as the current torch is still hurtling
> around), but I just had a wierd idea for the next relay.
>
> How about, instead of "Person A sends Language A to Person B.  Person B sends
> Language B to Person C, etc", we try a relay where the idea is to translate from
> you lang into the lang of the next person, ie: "Person A sends Language B to
> Person B.  Person B sends Language C to Person C, etc".  (obviously Person X is
> the "inventor" of Language X).
>
Well, we started out doing translations into our _own_ conlangs in
a simple way, too. So I'd suggest someone posts a short text with
enough vocabulary and grammatical hints for the intended target
language, with pointers to a fuller grammar, and then we all try to
translate that text into the target language. Afterwards, of course,
the original author has to spend some time correcting the homework ;-).

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt