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- Vizka la Spat. (See Spot.)
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- Vizka lepo la Spat, prano. (See Spot run.)
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- Prano, hoi Spat! I prano! (Run, Spot! Run!)
Loglan (for "Logical Language") is a language you can use both to program computers and speak to humans. If you enjoy learning new computer languages or new human languages, you'll get a real bang out of Loglan. Loglan was the language used by humans and computers on Luna in
RobertHeinlein's
TheMoonIsaHarshMistress.
Yes, it's a real language - and a beautiful one! See
http://www.loglan.org/what-is-loglan.html for a one page introduction and
http://www.loglan.org/Loglan3Download.html for a primer.
Web site:
http://www.loglan.org
Alas,
JamesCookeBrown (the originator of Loglan) has died.
The Loglan/Lojban split
The majority of
LoglanLanguage speakers moved to the
LojbanLanguage dialect about a decade ago. There's little structural difference between the two, though the primitives (words) are all different so they are mutually unintelligible. The split occurred when the original architect of the language wanted to make significant amounts of it proprietary, but most of the speakers wanted it to be
OpenContent. Anything associated with "The Loglan Institute" ("TLI") is proprietary Loglan. There is continuing talk of a rapprochement, but the languages are now so different only one can survive, and
LojbanLanguage seems like the one with the momentum.
Alternatives
Check out Esperanto (
http://www.esperanto-usa.org is a decent starting point, or call us at 1-800-ESPERANTO in the US). Considerably more speakers (approx two million, to US Foreign Service level 3 definition of "speak"). A significantly different set of design goals: learners can begin using it (reading
and speaking) very rapidly. -- David Wolff
Or just look at
EsperantoLanguage - we're trying to discuss Loglan here! Besides, the
LojbanLanguage propaganda holds that one semester of studying
LojbanLanguage is equivalent to three years of a natural language - and
LojbanLanguage is related to Loglan very closely. (Actually, what we say is "One year of Lojban is as hard
as three years of any natural language.") --
AnonymousDonor
Interesting to find out that Loglan is a real language. I'd thought that Heinlein had made it up. Anyone ever hear of
EprimeLanguage as formerly described at
http://members.icanect.net/~zardoz/eprime.htm (now a
BrokenLink)? English that highlights subjectivity by banning forms of "to be." --
MichaelFeathers
Yuck. The point of Loglan is to aid communication. The point of
EprimeLanguage is to hinder it and spread bad philosophy. --
DanielKnapp
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