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From: peierls@svax.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: Esperanto
Message-ID: <628@svax.cs.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, 23-Oct-86 11:05:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: svax.628
Posted: Thu Oct 23 11:05:43 1986
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Reply-To: peierls@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Tim Peierls)
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Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Ithaca NY
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Keywords: esperanto, loglan
Summary: Loglan is another artificial language.

In article <2808@watmath.UUCP> credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond) writes:
>There are other artificial spoken languages, by the way, including
>Interlingua (something like Esperanto, I believe -- years ago I used
>to subscribe to some scientific journal which for some reason published
>abstracts of all its articles in Interlingua) and Babm (a bizarre
>construct produced by a Japanese enthusiast).

Another one is Loglan, invented by James Cooke Brown in the late fifties.
Brown has been revising his language since then with the help of other Loglan
enthusiasts.  I've been following the discussions for the last ten years or so.

Loglan is international in the sense that the primitive objects of the language
were chosen to suggest corresponding words in the eight most spoken languages
in the world (they use a complicated metric for this).  It is syntactically
unambiguous, and it uses a fairly small set of phonemes, so it might be of
interest to people who do speech recognition.  A fairly small YACC grammar has
been constructed to parse correct utterances.  I've had a lot of fun playing
with the possibilities of this language; there are a lot of unexpected things
one can say concisely in Loglan that need long circumlocutions in English.

Are there any Loglanists out there on the net?
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