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Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - IT BEGINS (signups remain open)

Posted: 23 Jul 2020 02:12
by Parlox
Torch received! Starting work now.

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 25 Jul 2020 19:19
by Salmoneus
Yay! I'm now officially only joint-losing!

Except, of course, in the "produce an indecipherable mess that the next person can't make any sense of" sense, in which case I probably am still losing...

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 26 Jul 2020 02:43
by Parlox
I'm going to need an extra day.

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 26 Jul 2020 02:44
by Jackk
Parlox wrote: 26 Jul 2020 02:43 I'm going to need an extra day.
No worries—thanks for the heads up. [:D]

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 26 Jul 2020 02:55
by Parlox
I finished decoding the text a while ago, but while translating it into Gondolan I hit a few issues with clause formations. I spent a lot of time fixing that lol.

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 26 Jul 2020 11:58
by Salmoneus
I wouldn't worry too much - your side of the relay is already one step ahead of ours. And meanwhile, I think I may have killed Click...

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 26 Jul 2020 13:43
by Jackk
Salmoneus wrote: 26 Jul 2020 11:58 I wouldn't worry too much - your side of the relay is already one step ahead of ours. And meanwhile, I think I may have killed Click...
Haha [xD] I have it on good authority Ring 1 will be advancing later today, don't worry. [:D]

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 31 Jul 2020 00:09
by Parlox
Torched passed to Sasasha!

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 31 Jul 2020 00:14
by Jackk
Parlox wrote: 31 Jul 2020 00:09 Torched passed to Sasasha!
Received! [:D]

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 31 Jul 2020 14:17
by sasasha
Torch received, work has begun. [:)]

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 31 Jul 2020 17:04
by Salmoneus
Just to clarify here: Click's just struggling to write up his grammar, yes? They've managed to translate out of my conlang OK?

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 31 Jul 2020 20:08
by spanick
I'd like to sign up for Ring 1, if possible. Assuming the text requires the use of vocab and concepts from the modern era, I'd like to use Weddisch. I'd like to use Yinše, but its vocab is pretty limited as the speakers are semi-nomadic pastoralists whose technology is about copper/bronze age level.

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 31 Jul 2020 22:31
by Jackk
spanick wrote: 31 Jul 2020 20:08 I'd like to sign up for Ring 1, if possible. Assuming the text requires the use of vocab and concepts from the modern era, I'd like to use Weddisch. I'd like to use Yinše, but its vocab is pretty limited as the speakers are semi-nomadic pastoralists whose technology is about copper/bronze age level.
Sure! I will add you when I get my laptop back tomorrow. The tech thing is Unlikely to be an issue but of course I cannot vouch for any untoward developments between now and you! [>:D]
Salmoneus wrote: 31 Jul 2020 17:04 Just to clarify here: Click's just struggling to write up his grammar, yes? They've managed to translate out of my conlang OK?
I am assured by Click that things are proceeding decently. I'm certain that he will/would have contacted you directly if there were any major problems with your torch. [:)]

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 31 Jul 2020 22:36
by Salmoneus
FWIW, I had no insuperable lexical/conceptual problems translating the text into a 1st-millennium Germanic language, though it felt that that was not the intended cultural context. For an even more technologically undeveloped and/or alien culture, there may be a couple of terms that you might have to translate either into literal descriptions that would mean little to your speakers but are understandable to us, or else into analogous terms that they would understand but that are not literally accurate*. But on the whole, it's not challengingly modern.

Besides, who know what text you'll get, at the end of the chain? Maybe the person before you will have liberally translated everything into the cultural terms of a far-future interstellar empire... or those of palaeolithic hunter-gatherers.




*eg, if you had a stone-age culture and were translating a bronze-age text, your language might have no term for 'bronze', but you could say 'hard shiny substance' (literal circumlocution) or 'flint' (cultural analogy).

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 01:39
by Click
I apologize for the wait and will finish up the torch soon.

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 02:01
by spanick
Jackk wrote: 31 Jul 2020 22:31Sure! I will add you when I get my laptop back tomorrow. The tech thing is Unlikely to be an issue but of course I cannot vouch for any untoward developments between now and you! [>:D]
Awesome. I’ll be join go with Yinše then. It’ll be a bit more of a challenge, but probably more fun too.
Salmoneus wrote: 31 Jul 2020 22:36 FWIW, I had no insuperable lexical/conceptual problems translating the text into a 1st-millennium Germanic language, though it felt that that was not the intended cultural context. For an even more technologically undeveloped and/or alien culture, there may be a couple of terms that you might have to translate either into literal descriptions that would mean little to your speakers but are understandable to us, or else into analogous terms that they would understand but that are not literally accurate*. But on the whole, it's not challengingly modern.
Thanks! Last time, I used Weddisch which, despite my love for it, is a pretty boring Germanic language. I’ll be trying something new this time.

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 02 Aug 2020 00:09
by Click
Torch passed to @brblues.

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 02 Aug 2020 00:19
by brblues
Received, just before bedtime! So I won't get around to taking an actual look and hopefully start before tomorrow.

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 02 Aug 2020 08:01
by Jackk
Click wrote: 02 Aug 2020 00:09 Torch passed to @brblues.
Received. [:D]

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XII - ONGOING (signups remain open)

Posted: 03 Aug 2020 15:53
by sasasha
I have passed the torch to Yrusia. [:)]