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A '''conlang relay''' is a translation game involving conlangs.  It is similar to the game called by names such as Telephone or Chinese Whispers, where a message is whispered from person to person, often in the process being changed beyond recognition.  Instead of by whispers, in a relay the text is passed by translation:  it is translated from the conlang it is received in, into one's own conlang, and then passed to the next person to be translated.  The resulting text is generally much changed; a tendency noticed in early relays was for the original texts to mutate into creation myths.
A '''conlang relay''' is a translation game involving conlangs.  It is similar to the game called by names such as Telephone or Chinese Whispers, where a message is whispered from person to person, often in the process being changed beyond recognition.  Instead of by whispers, in a relay the text is passed by translation:  it is translated from the conlang it is received in, into one's own conlang, and then passed to the next person to be translated.  The resulting text is generally much changed; a tendency noticed in early relays was for the original texts to mutate into creation myths.


==External links==
A typical conlang relay takes around a month or two to run, excluding the initial planning phase and delays in publishing the final results (which are unfortunately common). On the [http://www.valdyas.org/mailman/listinfo/relay relay mailing list] one or two relays are run per year.
* [http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/relayrule.html Rules for the Conlang Relay Game]
 
* [http://www.valdyas.org/mailman/listinfo/relay CONLANG Translation Relay] — mailing list for organization of conlang relays
==List of relays==
* [http://steen.free.fr/relay10/old_relays.html List of participants in previous relays]
* [http://dedalvs.free.fr/relay/oldrelays.html David J. Peterson's list]  of old relays and their participants — very complete up to Relay 16, LCC2 relay, and Inverse Relay #2
* [http://www.theiling.de/cgi/relay.cgi Preliminary Relay Scheduler] at [http://www.theiling.de/ Theiling Online]


===Current relay===
[[Conlang Relay 18]] is technically currently running, though it has been finished modulo the final retranslations and a few stragglers since early March. 
* [[Conlang Relay 18]] (currently running)


===Former relays===
Known previous relays, in order of occurrence, are
* [http://www.valdyas.org/irina/valdyas/taal/hanleni_halsen/relay.html Starlings' Song Translation Relay]
* [http://www.valdyas.org/irina/valdyas/taal/hanleni_halsen/relay.html Starlings' Song Translation Relay]
* [http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/bastrelay2.html Bast Relay Translation Game of 1999]  (Second Relay)
* [http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/bastrelay2.html Bast Relay Translation Game of 1999]  (Second Relay)
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* [[Inverse Relay 2]] (incomplete)
* [[Inverse Relay 2]] (incomplete)
* [[Conlang Relay 17]]
* [[Conlang Relay 17]]
==External links==
* [http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/relayrule.html Rules for the Conlang Relay Game]
* [http://www.valdyas.org/mailman/listinfo/relay CONLANG Translation Relay] — mailing list for organization of conlang relays
* [http://steen.free.fr/relay10/old_relays.html List of participants in previous relays]
* [http://dedalvs.free.fr/relay/oldrelays.html David J. Peterson's list]  of old relays and their participants — very complete up to Relay 16, LCC2 relay, and Inverse Relay #2
* [http://www.theiling.de/cgi/relay.cgi Preliminary Relay Scheduler] at [http://www.theiling.de/ Theiling Online]


[[Category:Collaborations]] [[Category:Conlang relays]]
[[Category:Collaborations]] [[Category:Conlang relays]]

Revision as of 21:55, 9 April 2011

A conlang relay is a translation game involving conlangs. It is similar to the game called by names such as Telephone or Chinese Whispers, where a message is whispered from person to person, often in the process being changed beyond recognition. Instead of by whispers, in a relay the text is passed by translation: it is translated from the conlang it is received in, into one's own conlang, and then passed to the next person to be translated. The resulting text is generally much changed; a tendency noticed in early relays was for the original texts to mutate into creation myths.

A typical conlang relay takes around a month or two to run, excluding the initial planning phase and delays in publishing the final results (which are unfortunately common). On the relay mailing list one or two relays are run per year.

List of relays

Conlang Relay 18 is technically currently running, though it has been finished modulo the final retranslations and a few stragglers since early March.

Known previous relays, in order of occurrence, are

External links

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