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 CAA20520 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 02:54:52 -0500 Message-Id: <199511160754.CAA20520@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id DB07FAD2 ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 3:48:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 02:44:54 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: all the chinese whispers X-To: dwiggins@BFSEC.BT.CO.UK X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Thu Nov 16 02:54:54 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Using Jorge, and someone else who said he was capable of translating out of Spanish, you could have a Spanish phase. If you can recruit Cyril and Ivan you could add a Russian phase (I don't think I would be competent enough for Russian on any non-strightforward text, which is what I suspect the result would be). And you can undoubtedly find people to do an Esperanto phase. Maybe even a Klingon one (Mark Shoulson is subscribed. Nick is not, but perhaps could be recruited by private email since he ran the first phone game /whispers series. lojbab