I'll just copy Junesun's intro text:
The third round of the Broken Translations Game has started.
If you'd like to participate, please post which languages you can translate from / to here, even if you posted them in the other thread already.
For newcomers: the idea is the following: an English text is sent to the first translator, who will translate it to language A. Then the translated text in language A is sent to the second translator, who will translate it to language B. The third translator will receive the text in language B and translate it to language C, and so on. Finally the text is translated back to English. Of course neither the second nor the third translator will have access to the original English text, nor to any previous translations except the one they work on. So hopefully the meaning of the text will have turned into something very interesting by the end of the chain.
The more people participate and the more exotic languages, the better of course. See the previous Broken Translations games for examples of how this could work out.
I will act as the moderator and send out the texts.
Please sign up now!
In order to make a chain, we will need at least two people who can speak each language, because it wouldn't do to e. g. have somebody translate a text to Volapuk and then there is nobody who understands Volapuk well enough to translate it to some other language. At the same time, every translators has to speak the language well enough and be available enough to be able to complete the translation within 2 days' time, so as not to slow down the chain. The text will not be very long or difficult (see previous game for an example), but don't try to translate it to a language you don't really speak. So I'm asking to consider carefully which languages you can understand well enough to translate from and which languages you speak well enough to translate to. The more languages, the better, but not if you'll need to spend 5 days in a library with grammars and dictionaries in order to do the translation
ADDITIONAL RULES:
1) The chain and the progress of the game will be posted in the first post of the thread (this one)
2) You can send the copy of the text to the next person if you want, but be sure to send a copy to me too. Remember, it's safer with a moderator.
Consider carefully please, then post your languages here to sign up.
Game started on 16/04/2006 14:30 GMT
The chain (33 people)
English → German (by yabba) → Italian (by Darky) → Ancient Greek (Vinaok) → French (by Dminor) → Norwegian (by Car) → Swedish (by Hunef) → Polish (by Kuba) → German (by Sido) → Quebecois (by choriste) → English (by Passe-Cale) → Hebrew (by yosko) → German (by MiOB) → Spanish (by Saaropean) → Catalan (by Strigo) → French (by Luís) → German (by Vogelvrij) → Chinese (by Shibo77) → Italian (by Junesun) → Dutch (by Cada) → English (by dwergknijn) → Dutch (by Ron de Leeuw) → French (by Nounoursette) → Finnish (by Egein) → Swedish (by Jonne) → Portuguese (by Ioannes) → Italian (by lu:ka) → Japanese (by Kubi) → English (by Psi-Lord) → Esperanto (by Stan) → German (Hubi) → Slovenian (by skye) → Spanish (by Zajačík) → English (by alois)
The chain is now COMPLETE
The game ended on 06/05/2006 22:46 GMT
Check out the original and final versions in
this post.
Check out the whole chain in
this post.