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From: cdsm@icdoc.UUCP (Chris Moss)
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Subject: Re: LOGLAN
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Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 15:08:04 EST
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In article <10128@tardis.UUCP> tmb@tardis.UUCP (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
>Does anyone have more recent references on LOGLAN than the 1960
>Scientific American article?

There are several books by J.C. Brown published by the Loglan Institute.
at Ann Arbor. The two I have immediate reference to are "Loglan 1", 1966
(a grammar) and Loglan 4 & 5 (1969) Dictionary.

>From what I read, the language did not strike me as too well designed.

With hindsight I agree. I got a couple of students here to do dissertations
on it around 1980; they didn't do too well and it wasn't all their
fault (or all mine). The last I heard from the Loglan conference was
that nobody had yet learned to *speak* Loglan and that seems pretty
damning. Things may have changed but I doubt it.

Incidentally, has anyone opinions about the Esperanto project which is
part of the Eurotra project. (Book called "Distributed Language
Translation" by A. Witkam - BSO Utrecht 1983). He attempts to avoid
ambiguities in the syntax by markings not unlike Russell's original
scheme for Logic. It's designed as the intermediate language for the
multi-language translation project, with interactive disambiguation.
He doesn't seem to have paid much attention to semantic ambiguities.