From gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch Fri Sep 21 12:04:03 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 21 Sep 2001 19:03:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 66082 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2001 19:03:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.1.220 with QMQP; 21 Sep 2001 19:03:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta2n.bluewin.ch) (195.186.1.211) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Sep 2001 19:04:03 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (62.202.35.115) by mta2n.bluewin.ch (5.5.044) id 3BA8C352000E7276 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 21:04:02 +0200 Message-ID: <002001c142d0$203d3ec0$7323ca3e@oemcomputer> To: Subject: Broken phone Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 21:02:47 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 From: "G. Dyke" I found a "Broken phone" text on lojban.org. I thought we could start another round, any takers? The idea is to find a list of participants and a "moderator" who takes a text, translates it into lojban, sends it to the first on the list ; who translates it into some other language and sends it both to the next (who speaks the same language) and to the moderator; by the time the text has been translated a dozen times into and out of lojban, it usually ends up somewhat distorted Gregory Dyke, fluent: English, French enough: German (Lojban a'o) -- "I have a proposal for the international community: help us build an execution block ; then we will be able to use our stadium for playing football" *the afghani foreign minister* "Last night's speech [by Bush, 20/9/01] was one of the great speeches of the English language" *some official bootlicker*