Re: RELAY INSTRUCTIONS!!! was Re: new relay

At 08:39 AM Thursday 5/31/01, you wrote:

Padraic,

Thanks so much for the detailed rules. It's a great help for someone who's
never done one before.

>I've found from past relays and translation exercises that the most
>satisfying ones are those I've had to work at. A relay is not much fun
>if the previous translator's conception of the English meaning of the
>text is almost transparent within the interlinear. I have also found
>that if too much information is given in the interlinear, I tend (to
>my shame) to translate _from_ the interlinear and ignore the conlang
>itself. All that conlanger's work went for naught because he made it
>too easy!
In this spirit, would it be acceptable to simply direct the translator to
the grammatical and lexical information on the language (at a web site,
say), assuming that there were no undocumented forms or usages in the text?
Or is that asking too much? I can see that the interlinear as you intend it
would be a welcome time saver, as one would not have to hunt through a
sheaf of tables to figure out what grammatical form each word was in.




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