Conlang relay

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.

Conlang Relay 17 will begin in February 2010.

External links

• Rules for the Conlang Relay Game
• CONLANG Translation Relay — mailing list for organization of conlang relays
• List of participants in previous relays
• David J. Peterson's list of old relays and their participants — very complete up to Relay 16, LCC2 relay, and Inverse Relay #2
• Preliminary Relay Scheduler at Theiling Online

Former relays

• Starlings' Song Translation Relay
• Bast Relay Translation Game of 1999 (Second Relay)
• Third Conlang Translation Relay [Internet Archive]
• Tenth Anniversary Conlang Relay (Fourth Relay)
• Fifth CONLANG Translation Relay
• Sixth Conlang Translation Relay
• Relay 6.5
• Seventh Conlang Translation Relay (incomplete)
• Conlang Translation Relay 8
• Conlang Relay 9
• Conlang Relay 10/R
• Conlang Relay 11
• Conlang Relay 12
• Conlang Relay 13
• Conlang Relay 14
• LCC2 Relay
• Inverse Relay 1
• Conlang Relay 15
• Conlang Relay 16
• LCC3 Relay
• Inverse Relay 2 (incomplete)