Re: Script list and translations from scratch

On Sunday 02 June 2002 05:32 am, Christopher B Wright wrote:
> Kaidha, sulir.
        Dobroje utro!

>   First, I had a thought to create a con-scripts mailing list. Who is for
> it?
        *raises hand and waves vigorously* Me! Me!
        Although upon reflection, I'm not sure if there would be much need for one.
Ah, well, we have the unlimited resources of the Internet to exploit! And in
the spirit of said Internet, redundancy is good is redundancy. :)

>   Second, if I made a contest (not soon) in which I posted an
> untranslated text in a conlang and everyone tried together to translate
> it, or at least find out as much about the language as possible, who
> would participate?
>   If nobody would like to do that, I'll keep the idea until I'm a
> professor of linguistics and have a fistful of students to test. Some of
> them would hate me, I'm sure.
        Hmm...sound intriguing. I might take a shot at it. How much information would
you give us? No fair if it is Linear B. :)
        As for aspirations to professorship: it seems to me that such a test would be
rather appropriate for a final exam...worth 75% of the final grade!
Mwuhahaha! *cough*
        I'll just be sure not to send any potential children of mine to your college.
        :Peter