Re: Future Translation relays, and new spin-off mailing list

Jim Henry wrote:
> I agree.  As we split off auxlang a few years ago and conculture
> early this year
Not to mention the celtic-conlang list and, IIRC, an NGL list.

> we should split off translation relays, which generate
> not only the lengthy (nice) texts, but lots of related admin chat.
> Perhaps the same list would be open to any long interlinear text
> postings, but not general conlang or linguistics chat.
I disagree.  As I suggested earlier, the relay could be handled solely
thru individual e-mails.  A "relaymaster" would declare on the list the
beginning of a relay, describing what the basic text will be, in vague
details, of course, preferably nothing more than something like "this
will be a four-line text".  Then, anyone who wants to participate would
contact that person by private e-mail, and (s)he'd compile all the
participants, and send the text to the first person.  That person, when
they're finished, would send their translation to the relaymaster, who
would forward it (after, perhaps, editing to remove a smooth
translation) to the next person and so on.  Perhaps the relaymaster
would also send an e-mail to the list to declare the relay closed, and
then at the end send a single e-mail with all the translations, with a
link to a webpage that has it, if the relaymaster has made one.  OR the
relaymaster could set up a temporary list for posting the translations
and discussing it.  Thus, either way, there would be a grand total of
just *3* posts about it.

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