Re: A Conlang Pidgin Game

Joe wrote:

>I'm looking for someone to play a conlang game with.
> The game would be played through email by two people.
>First each person would choose one of their conlangs
>(or make one up on the fly) and agree on an orthography
>that can accomodate both players langs.  After that,
>a list of about 100 key words would be split down the middle,
>and each player would fill in their half of the list with words
>from their language.  When both players have the other's
>words the game would begin.  Each player would come up
>with a list of beween five and ten sentences for translation
>and send it to the other.  When translating, the players
>would be required to stick to words that are on the list
>when possible.  If a new word is used, it is added onto the list.
>Each word may only have one entry.
>Each player would attempt to adhere to their source language's
>grammar as well as possible.  It would probably help if each
>language lent itself to compounding, and of course there are
>plenty other factors that would facilitate/debilitate "play".
>
>So how 'bout it, anyone interested?
>
I did this kind of thing once: vreating part of a language, then
someone else adding other things, then me adding once more
other things etc. and it was huge fun. The Conlang (Leropho)
is still a nice lang IMHO.

So , this experience combined with the fact that I like
Pidgins makes me interested in playing this game with you!

Rob