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Re: new relay

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Thursday, May 31, 2001, 18:51
Irina Rempt wrote:
>On Wed, 30 May 2001, Shreyas Sampat wrote: > > > I have a creation story that might work, though it'd have to be > > lengthened a bit to make a satisfactory exercise. > >*Lengthened*? How long is it? Mine was 4 lines, Sally's was 8, and I >think Nicole's was 8 as well. > > > 12 lines seems to be a fairly close approximation to the average. > >Not to the average of our previous relays. If it's too long - and 12 >lines might be too long for some of us - it may not be possible to >finish it in 48 hours.
I vote for something short - if to long I'll agonize for our about all the neologisms I'm going to have to coin (Tairezazh's vocabulary is quite small). 4-8 lines seem about right to me. Obviously, longer is no problem if it's highly repetetive, but that's little point in that, is it? Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.