Re: Reverse Relay?

Irina>>>>>>
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Paul Bennett wrote:

> 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).
Eek! What do you translate - the version you get or are you allowed
to correct it first? I think I could manage to translate from
*proper* Valdyan into, say, Drasel=E9q or Denden, but not from mangled
Valdyan. Either way it would probably be awful Drasel=E9q or Denden.
<<<<<<

Oh, the version you get, definitely.  Who's to say that all the "native=
"
speakers would conform completely to the "prescriptivists"?  Especially=
 those
from other dialects, or those who were poetically minded.  A "corrected=
" version
would obviously be of interest, though, afterwards.  In fact, if you're=

receiving a text in your own lang, part of me thinks you shouldn't even=
 get an
interlinear, just a lexicon of any new terms that have had to be added.=


Oh, and on the subject of new words, I'd advise borrowing or calquing f=
rom your
lang into the recipients lang, where possible (provided your conculture=
 isn't
too conservative to allow this).  I know this means we'll all end up wi=
th the
same word for some things in our langs, but it doesn't mean we're stuck=
 with
them.  Just so long as we've got enough vocab (temp or perm) to make it=
 work.





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