Poetry Telephone

[tomoffing]

If you're really stuck for numbers, put me down (at your peril I'd add).
And I'm not sure I've made minimum posts to qualify for these activities yet.
I'll keep an eye out either way.

[billy]

we don't care how good you are, we only care how good you want to be :J:

can we make a shortish one to start with so it's not too hard, i had the balls of a job writing a sonnet

[MissingBob]

I'd like to participate, if I may.

[milo]

I'd like to participate, if I may.

Added. Current list:

Ella
true
JM
Billy
JC
Keith
tomoffing
missing bob

I will leave it open until Saturday at which point I will write the first one and 'whisper' it (by pm) into the first participant's ear (inbox). That participant will have 48 hours to rewrite it and send it back at which point i will send it to to the next person. I may scramble th order . . . or I may not.

[justcloudy]

The suspense will kill us all!

[billy]

right. so the poem won't be shown till everyone's scarmbled the eggs? .......you devious bastard

[milo]

right. so the poen won't be shown till everyone's scarmbled the eggs? .......you devious bastard

just like the kid's game.

[Truerenigma]

right. so the poen won't be shown till everyone's scarmbled the eggs? .......you devious bastard

just like the kid's game.

Nice! I was actually involved in a study of how languages evolve which included a game of telephone and the making up of a new language. The results were very interesting, it seems that the mistakes made by others were more comprehensible to the rest than the original words as it went down the line, which suggests that languages might evolve through a history of grammatical errors that were more easily understood in their context. . . anyway. . .

[justcloudy]

Wow that's super interesting true! You don't happen to have a the study online or something do you? I'd be really interested in reading it.
Did all the participants have the same native language? If so it'd make sense that the mistakes they made came from their own language, making it easier for speakers of that same language to understand the convolution of the new one. Like how French speakers say "I am agree" instead of "I agree" (from the French "Je suis d'accord") because that makes more sense to them.

[Truerenigma]

Wow that's super interesting true! You don't happen to have a the study online or something do you? I'd be really interested in reading it.
Did all the participants have the same native language? If so it'd make sense that the mistakes they made came from their own language, making it easier for speakers of that same language to understand the convolution of the new one. Like how French speakers say "I am agree" instead of "I agree" (from the French "Je suis d'accord") because that makes more sense to them.

I don't know if it's online, but I think the guy I was working with got his thesis published, I'll look into it.

Oh and we all spoke English, but it wasn't a first language for all of us. The study was mostly concerned with the evolution of the English language in particular.

[billy]

so when is pass the parcel starting? and how long do we get to do the rewrite?

[Truerenigma]

so when is pass the parcel starting? and how long do we get to do the rewrite?

billy read the thread. saturday. we get 48hrs

[milo]

Apologies to all entrants, I need to travel on business for a week so there will be a one week delay.

[Truerenigma]

Apologies to all entrants, I need to travel on business for a week so there will be a one week delay.

Booooohh!

Apology accepted. Don't work too hard. I hear it can be bad for your soul.

[ellajam]

Apologies to all entrants, I need to travel on business for a week so there will be a one week delay.

Damn, I breathed a sigh of relief figuring you had shuffled and I wasn't between you and true, what a sore thumb that would be.

Have a good trip.

[justcloudy]

Sooo.... is this happening?

[Keith]

I'm going on holiday for two weeks from this Sunday so the 48hr turn around could be a problem for me

[kingmicahde]

Could I hop in?

[billy]

I'm going on holiday for two weeks from this Sunday so the 48hr turn around could be a problem for me

stop wimpering like a man child already

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Could I hop in?

i don't see why not

Current list:

Ella
true
JM
Billy
JC
Keith
tomoffing
missing bob
kingmicahde

[billy]

If you need a tenth person, I will volunteer.

i think it will make milo happy, i hope it will make milo happy

Current list:

Ella
true
JM
Billy
JC
Keith
tomoffing
missing bob
kingmicahde
fogglethorpe