Re: Conlang game idea

On Sunday 23 February 2003 12:08 am, Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> Emaelivpar HS Teoh:
> >Basically, it's for two conlangers to carry out a conversation in their
> >respective conlangs. The first person sends a greeting or something
>
> I like the basic idea.  One problem I can foresee would be the classic
> penpal dilemma -- "Now that we've introduced ourselves, what do we talk
> about?"  Perhaps we could be semi-organized about this...  If we suggested
> a general topic of discussion, then people could state opinions and
> ask/answer questions about the topic.
>
> Actually, this sounds rather fun, now that I think about it.  There could
> be three pools:  one for people wanting to discuss linguistic aspects of
> their languages, one for people wanting to discuss concultural aspects, and
> one for people wanting to discuss RL topics/chit-chat.  If we had a
> standing list of who belonged to which pool (and there's no reason why you
> couldn't belong to more than one pool), then anyone interested in starting
> up a conlang-to-conlang conversation could just e-mail someone in the same
> pool and get going.  Posting the final results after some set amount of
> exchanges could be interesting to the list at large, as well.
>
> Or else this could be too much organization for us timeliness-challenged
> folk.  ;)
>
> But personally, I'd love to give it a try.  I'd even volunteer to organize
> the thing.  :)  Any takers?
I'll take ;-)