Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Thu, 2 Jul 92 03:02 EDT Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA28097; Thu, 2 Jul 92 02:12:46 EDT Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA04177; Thu, 2 Jul 92 01:58:29 -0400 Message-Id: <9207020558.AA04177@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2565; Thu, 02 Jul 92 01:58:03 EDT Received: by PUCC (Mailer R2.08 ptf033) id 0810; Thu, 02 Jul 92 01:57:46 EDT Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1992 15:56:29 +1000 Reply-To: cbmvax!uunet!MULLIAN.EE.MU.OZ.AU!nsn Sender: Lojban list From: cbmvax!uunet!MULLIAN.EE.MU.OZ.AU!nsn Subject: forward from Chris Handley X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu X-Cc: nsn@ee.mu.oz.au To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Thu Jul 2 03:02:43 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMB.BITNET!LOJBAN [remember, Chris; you gotta manually add in lojbanlist in followups :) ] Message-Id: From: "Chris Handley" Date: 2 Jul 1992 17:44:39 GMT+1200 Subject: RE: a new Lojban project - for all of you Reply-To: chandley@otago.ac.nz X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Mac v1.1 Hi Nick writes: > >I think a Lojbanic Canterbury Tales is a capital idea! I think the people >on whom I've inflicted round 3 of the Phone Game (a mother of a game, with >very tricky vocab probs - if any of you is having a really hard time, I can >change your phrases) would agree :) I'd have no objection to a scifi >scenario, but would prefer something on this planet, possibly mediaevalist. >I'm not quite feeling like coordinating, unless noone else volunteers' but >there really is little to coordinating. Sorry I can't be more helpful or >inventive with scenarios; anyone feeling creative? It'd be preferable that >the thread not be a complete mishmash. Once the preliminaries are through, >though, I don't see why the tales shouldn't just be dumped onto lojbanlist >as they get churned out, to be integrated up by the coordinator eventually. > Some points to remember about both Canterbury Tales and the Decameron: 1) They were written by one person (and a genius at that) 2) They were written fairly well into the flowering of the language. IMHO neither of these conditions apply to Lojban at the moment, which should not stop us doing something. Certainly a collection of stories along a central theme would be a great start to the language. Another suggestion would be another parlour game. One person starts off and writes part of a story (a para, a sentence, whatever). This is then passed to the next person in the list to continue, and so on. (In the normal version, you stop in mid sentence, but that may be a tad difficult) Chris Chris Handley chandley@otago.ac.nz Dept of Computer Science Ph (+64) 3-479-8499 University of Otago Fax (+64) 3-479-8577 Dunedin, NZ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Bet you 3 to 1 that fixing that bug will introduce three more" --- 'Dera me xhama t"e larm"e, T Nick Nicholas, EE & CS, Melbourne Uni Dera mbas blerimit | Mail: nsn@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au Me xhama t"e larm"e! | Omiloume ellhnika/Esperanto parolata/ Lumtunia nuk ka ngjyra tjera.' | {mika'e tavla baula lojban.je'uru'e} - Martin Camaj, _Nj"e Shp'i e Vetme_ | (Better .sig suggestions welcome)