Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 21:14:23 +0100
From: ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>
Subject: Chinese Whispers
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To: Veijo Vilva <veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI>
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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.
 
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