Re: New Relay Announcement

 --- Bryan Maloney skrzypszy:

> In that case, I volunteer to start and run a relay, titled "The Other
> Seventh Conlang Relay".
Why not simply Relay nr. 8?

> On 8 February 2003 the Relay will officially begin.  If you have an
> interest in participating, please email me with the following information:
Yes, I want in!

Name: Jan van Steenbergen
Language Name: Wenedyk
Email Address: ijzeren_jan @ yahoo.co.uk
Preference for where in the relay you want to be (early/middle/late):
  doesn't matter; all I ask is that one of my two days is a Wednesday.

> I would also like to know if your language is remarkably "alien"
> or "symbolic" or "poetic".
Not more alien, symbolic or poetic than Polish.

> I may split this into two relays, one for far-out languages that are
> especially "poetic" or "metaphorical" or have "unique" or "special"
> grammatical features, the other for mere mortals like me.
Depends on the number of participants, I would say.

> I would prefer direct email on this, since I may miss things sent to
> the conlang list.
In this case I elect to send to the list, because I want to say something about
the subject.

First of all: I agree with Joe that it would be best to wait until the Bob's
Seventh Relay has been officially concluded. I don't know what has happened
there, but IMO it would be unfair to those who haven't had their turn yet in
that relay to start a new one.

Second: experience has taught us that it really takes some time to gather all
the people interested. Some of us might not be present for some reason, and yet
they would like to participate.

Third: I think it is necessary to be VERY strict with the 48-hours rule. The
failure of the Seventh Relay was partly due to the fact that the text got stuck
somewhere and the moderator didn't urge his/her predecessor to send it to the
next candidate.
So: unless the person who has it has a very good reason to keep the text for
more than those 48 hours, he loses his turn. (A good reason can be, like in my
case, the combination of a full-time job with an Ebisedian text :), which
caused me to need three days).

What do you think about that?

Jan

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