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Re: Six more conlang relays already complete

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 8, 2002, 19:54
Roger:
> BTW those Lojban relays were extremely interesting. I wonder-- do the > participants know the source of the text? (I suppose not-- but what happens > if someone recognizes it? The paragraph from Poe might have been familiar, > and I had the impression someone had perhaps recognized the passage about > Frank Auerbach, as one of the middle versions struck me as more coherent > that it had a right to be.)
It's inconceivable that anybody could have recognized it. It was taken from an exhibition catalogue that had only been published shortly before I took the text from it. Which passage did you find impressively coherent? I'd like to take a look & come up with an explanation. The most likely explanation is that many of the participants are (as on all Conlang relays, I'm sure) very sensitive & talented when it comes to matters linguistic. --And.