An invitation to Diane; was: Computation vs. Storage

Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Sally Caves wrote:
>
> > Well, I thought I was busy and pressed for time.  Would you like to
> > join our Relay Translation? <GGGG> ;-) Just kidding... this should
> > be wrapping up shortly.
>
> Well, it *would* be fun to have a version in Rihannsu. I'm rather
> partial to it myself (Diane, if you missed the start of this, the
> original poem was mine). It's only four lines - we can fit you in.
>
>    Irina
We think it's four lines, Diane... it started out that way.  Irina's
idea was that she'd give a four-line poem in Valdyan to me privately,
which I passed along to Steg Belsky, who passed his version (I
think still four lines) to Patrick Dunn, who passed it along to
somebody else... all told, eighteen people.  Andrew has it now
(Andrew have you passed it along to Carlos yet?), Carlos will pass
it along to Josh Shinavier, Josh to Fabian, and Fabian back to
Irina, who will translate his version into Valdyan.  Then we
compare her original Valdyan with the latest Valdyan (all neatly
translated, as well, into English--with grammatical explications)
and see what happened to it, and everyone posts their versions.
You wouldn't get Irina's original, but Fabian's translation of
Josh's translation of Carlos' etc.etc. etc.  We don't know if it's
still four lines!  For all anyone knows, it's ballooned into a saga!
The point was that nobody saw anything except the previous
translation.  It's like conlang telephone!  Want to give it a spin?

Sally
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html