Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id QAA14542 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 16:33:20 -0400 Message-Id: <199509232033.QAA14542@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 3A5E4B5B ; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 16:15:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 21:14:23 +0100 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Chinese Whispers X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Sat Sep 23 16:33:21 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU A few years back there was among participants on this list a game of Chinese whispers. The game administrator selects an English sentence and sends it off to participant A, and a Lojban sentence and sends it off to participant Z. A translates it into Lojban and sends it on to B. Z translates into English and sends it on to Y. And so on. Each participant is allowed a week or so to do the translation. Eventually, the message finds its way past each participant to the organizer, who posts a summary of how each sentence fared through the iterated translations. If anyone wishes to participate, or, eocai, to volunteer to be the summarizer and/or initiator, or to offer some suitably short but taxing English & Lojban sentences, then email me. If I get enough interest then I'll post a further announcement to the list. --- And