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 15 will begin on March 31st 2008, and the results will be hosted here.

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 14, LCC2 relay, and Inverse Relay #1
• 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