Re: Quarterly Contest! Writing in Two Dimensional Space
| From: | Patrick Littell <puchitao@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 11, 2005, 22:54 |
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(Annoying, ain't it? I hope they fix it before it goes out of beta. A simple
fix would be to allow the user a mapping: if it comes from <address>, make
my reply-to address <address>.)
Go right ahead and cross-post it. By no means should it be limited to just
CONLANGers. The more participants and/or judges the better.
Since some of the neographers may already have implementations of such
ideas, what does everyone think about submitting pre-existing systems? I
wouldn't want to rule out a system that's been around for awhile, but is it
fair to the folks who only have a month or two to devise one? My gut
reaction is to allow it, though. The fewer restrictions on submissions the
better, I figure. I'll take into account while judging that a brand-new
system may not be as complete as one that's been in the works for a long
time, and not penalize the new ones for a lack of depth, scope, or details.
Should anyone wish to set up a separate little site or something, so that
non CONLANG folks can more easily participate, you may be in on the judging
if you so wish.
Oh, and should non-me judges be allowed to make submissions themselves?
(Provided, of course, that they can't spend a vote on them?)
-- Pat
On 5/11/05, Simon Clarkstone <simon.clarkstone@...> wrote:
>
> (Sorry to Patrick, Gmail reacts oddly to mailing lists.)
> On 5/11/05, Patrick Littell <puchitao@...> wrote:
> > I, for one, would be greatly excited to see some of these 2-dimensional
> > and/or nonlinear writing examples in practice and not just in theory.
> Since
> > there's a lot of work in between arguing that something can or cannot be
> > done and actually succeeding or failing, I'm willing to provide some
> > incentive...
> >
> > I hereby announce a contest: The submitted language/communication system
> > that makes the best use of two dimensions of space will win a new copy
> of
> > "Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction" by Geoffrey Sampson.
>
> Should I (or someone else) also post this to the "Neographies" mailing
> list?
> (
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/neographies/)
> I wouldn't want to without permission. It would be best to provide
> appropriate archive links, or maybe some special co-operation
> site/system should be set up, as there is not a great overlap between
> us.
>
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