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 OAA23817 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 14:46:35 -0500 Message-Id: <199511161946.OAA23817@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 268FD5CA ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 15:39:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 20:28:59 MET Reply-To: Goran Topic Sender: Lojban list From: Goran Topic Subject: Re: all the chinese whispers X-To: Lojban Listserv To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Thu Nov 16 14:46:37 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU > 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. I have also learned Klingon... But am a bit rusty, my vocab's all but vanished... I'll try the previous Chinese Whisper for practice, and let you see how back translations from Klingon tend to look... But, I must warn you: Klingon has smaller and much more specialised vocabulary, and things that Klingons do to express simple things goes much beyond tanru. Like, "bridge" becomes "route above the long water", or more inventively (but also much more obfuscated, although quite understandable in hindsight) "land joiner". But I am willing to give it a try, if you really want me to. Next day I come back to the hotel. Meetings all day long. Lot of trying to like each other. And I do, I mean they're nice chaps. wa'leS pa' vIngIpbogh vIchegh vIghomtaHvIS jaj naQ qaS parHa'chuq net nIDqu'taH QaQmo' latlh vIparHa' 'e' vInID je One day in future, I return to the room which I borrow. While I meet (them), a whole day passes. Mutual {to'e}-disliking is intensely being attempted. Because they're good, I try, too, to {to'e}-dislike the others. (~mark, would you correct my mistakes? :)) Qapla' qoranvo' co'o mi'e. goran. -- GAT/CS/O d?@ H s:-@ !g p1(2)@ !au(0?) a- w+(+++) (!)v-@(+) C++(++++) UU/H(+) P++>++++ L(>+) !3 E>++ N+ K(+) W--(---) M-- !V(--) -po+ Y(+) t+@(+++) !5 !j R+@ G-@(J++) tv+(++) b++@ D++ B? e+* u@ h!$ f?(+) r-- !n(+@) y+. GeekCode v2.1, modifications left to reader to puzzle out