“Get it across” game.
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 8:47 am
An idea for a game i have not seen in any place, though there are similar games based on sequence of posts. I call them RINO KUJO “sequence games”.
The point is, give a word, or an expression, or a phrase, and maybe reach even to a short story, without a translation of the whole word/expression/phrase/story, but with a glossing of all the constituents. Then the person who reads that glossing will give a translation according to his/her understanding; and then give the next glossed word/expression/phrase/story for the next person to translate, and so on.
For example, imagine i find (in the supposedly previous post) the Toki Pona term “moku soweli” glossed as “food-animal”; i tentatively translate as “meat”, and then give my own expression for the next person to translate:
NEXT EXPRESSION: kibo wiwo
Gloss: KIBO=long, WIWO=water. (head last word order in Dama Diwan).
(now waiting for the next person to translate, and then give his/her expression for translation)
The point is, give a word, or an expression, or a phrase, and maybe reach even to a short story, without a translation of the whole word/expression/phrase/story, but with a glossing of all the constituents. Then the person who reads that glossing will give a translation according to his/her understanding; and then give the next glossed word/expression/phrase/story for the next person to translate, and so on.
For example, imagine i find (in the supposedly previous post) the Toki Pona term “moku soweli” glossed as “food-animal”; i tentatively translate as “meat”, and then give my own expression for the next person to translate:
NEXT EXPRESSION: kibo wiwo
Gloss: KIBO=long, WIWO=water. (head last word order in Dama Diwan).
(now waiting for the next person to translate, and then give his/her expression for translation)