Re: Getting started with a newborn lang

Am 27.02.02, Jesse Raccio yscrifef:

> Hey all,
>
>    Well I have the basis for my yet unnamed lang.
> Could anyone suggest some simple texts for translation
> so that I can give my newborn its first steps.  I have
> been hunting, but have been unsuccessful in finding
> something simple enough that it would not get me bent
> out of shape at first.
Well, you could start with what you just wrote! Otherwise,
popular texts are the Paternoster (short with interesting
grammar); the Tower of Babel myth (origin of diverse world
languages, and thus of all our conlangs); the Starling Song
(an old Translation Relay text); and of course, random
paragraphs you find in others' messages. A good recent one
was the True Poet text.

Looking forward to more,

Padraic.
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