Re: VMs: lojban

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are actually two versions - the original is Loglan, while Lojban 
is an offshoot. (The relationship is like that of Esperanto to Ido.)

As I recall from the original article in Scientific American, the idea 
was to come up with a language that was dramatically different from 
existing languages (that's why it's based on predicate calculus), I 
guess to see if such a language engendered a radically different world 
view. I don't know who decided that it would be worth pursuing as a 
working language.

(For computer types, it's like creating an ANSI standard for Intercal.)

Bruce

Rafal T. Prinke wrote:

> I was reading on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis recently and
> found out about the lojban language which was designed
> to test it - but then seems to have got out of control and
> created a cult following. I do not remember it being mentioned
> on the list here?
>
> There is a wiki on it, which has some texts translated:
>
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Texts+in+Lojban
>
> I am not sure it is relevant, but maybe someone statistically
> minded might like to have a look at the properties of it?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rafal
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