Re: relay participation

Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> reasonably-sized vocabulary is a prerequisite, I don't know.
> I would tend to think so, but I also know that people with
> small lexicons have prepared marvellous contributions to the
> relays. Speaking for myself, I wouldn't do it with a language
> of less than a thousand words, because I hate it if I have to
> think about every second or third word. But that is also
> because word creation is not something I do easily.
I feel this way myself, which is why I haven't attempted to participate in
relays.   It's bad enough I have to keep going back to texts I've translated
and kept and re-writing them because I tampered with the grammar again.  I'd
feel weird see it on a relay-website and going 'man, that is so wrong!' :)

Hmm. My lexicon has around 800 entries, but it doesn't actually lend itself
well to translation yet.  Probably because I've not engaged in enough
translation practice. :)



Iain

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