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Call for help - Babel text

From:Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
Date:Sunday, October 14, 2001, 11:30
Hello again,
I'm writing to everyone here to call for help - I hope it won't be
overburdening. :-)
I have (no they don't make me) to make a report for a high school
students' conference on any topic, provided it's in English, and I'm
writing about conlangs - examining us from several points of view,
especially from the Sapir-Whorf theory and the psychology of creative
processes. People don't know much about conlangs (at least  those who'll
be checking it - they're Russian teachers of English), so I thought it
would be nice to them :-) if I appended several samples of conlangs in
my paper. No one will conceivably doubt that the Babel text is the most
logical sample to present, since I believe it's translated into
virtually every conlang there is :-)
So, I would greatly appreciate it if at least some of you sent me the
Babel text in their conlangs, preferably in RTF format, but that really
doesn't matter - it might as well be in the body of the email -
_off-list to pavel_iosad@mail.ru_. It's not necessary that you make
interlinear translations, but again it would be greatly appreciated.
I'd drop dead with happiness also if you indicated your location (at
least the country). :-)

If you don't want to take too much trouble but still want to help,
you're lucky if you posted it here. Please email me indicating at least
the month when you did (giving the exact number of the message will
absolutely kill me). You might also want to indicate the link to a web
page with the Babel text if you have one.

Everyone will be published and acknowledged. Promise. :-) (If you're
active enough, the appendix will exceed the text itself. That'd be cool)

Thag you very buch id advadce, really :-)

Pavel,
making everyone work for himself and not even ashamed ;-)

P. S. And that's not all: I'm preparing a questionnaire for y'all :-)
I'm not easily get rid of :-)

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Pavel Iosad
Student at: Lyceum 1535, 52 Usacheva str., Moscow, Russia
Home: apt.113, 110 prospect Mira, Moscow, 129626 Russia
E-mail: pavel_iosad@mail.ru
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