Re: CHAT: Relays, Link 1

> I for one would *love* feedback on how clear my notes on Czevraqis
> were to Jesse, frex.  I have this sinking feeling that either the
> language is still too simplistic, or I wasn't clear enough.  Jesse?
Actually, I thought everything was pretty clear, though I would have
liked more explanations in the vocabulary.  You never gave the meaning of
the roots from which some of the verbs were derived, and if I rememer
right most of them were not in the root pattern.  (I'm using all of the
wrong terms here, but I hope you know what I mean.)  And there was one
place where the interpretation of a verb depended on the interpretation
of the verb's arguments, which was interesting with an active language.
I think I got it right, though, and it wasn't all that difficult.

> God, yes.  I felt fortunate in that Relay 1's text (as I got it) was
> particularly suitable to mashing to fit into the conculture.  =^)
> And I was sitting there generating vocabulary like mad.  I didn't
> expect to *need* some of those words for a while....<G>
:-).  I think I only had to make up one word, the word for "bargain."
But now, looking at the original texts, I'm not sure how that concept
worked its way in <<chuckle>>.  This makes me think of another process
distorting the translations in this game--lack of vocabulary.  I only
create new words when I absolutely have to, and so I sort of stretched
the meaning of a few things to fit words that I already had.

And Irina Rempt wrote:
> > I made a "scribal error" in my part.  I accidentally copied a word
from
> > line two in line three, so that instead of saying "I found a word",
it
> > said "I found it in the wilderness".  Oops.  :-P
>
> That's probably the phrase that I translated as "I am deep in the
> forest" :-)
Aha!  I knew there was something about a forest in the version I got, and
I'm quite amused to see that a "scribal error" is responsible for it.


Jesse S. Bangs     Pelíran
jaspax @juno.com
"There is enough light for those that desire only to see, and enough
darkness for those of a contrary disposition."  --Blaise Pascal

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