evansr@yale-com.UUCP (Ronald Warren Evans) (02/08/84)
Does anyone out there remember Loglan? It is a mind-blowing artificial language with a grammar based on symbolic logic. I append the classic example of Loglan syntax, from the original article by James Cooke Brown (its inventor) in the June 1960 *Scientific American*. ORIGINAL : Radaku da mreni u da rizdonsu. PARTLY PARSED: Ra da ku da mreni u da rizdonsu ALL X -- X man --> X rational For all X , "X is a man" implies "X is rational." ENGLISH : All men are rational. (Remember, the truth of this statement is not at issue here.) A Loglanist posted an article to net.general in March 1982. (I suppose net.nlang didn't exist then.) If that Loglanist or anyone else interested is reading this, I would like some more information. Does the Loglan Institute still exist? Were the updated dictionaries and grammars ever published? Let's see some more articles on Loglan on the net (even if they are only flames from romantics -- educated flames only, please.) RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Remember... RR Reality is skin-deep. >:-) RR WW W WEEEEEEEE RR WW W WE Ron Evans RR WW W WEEEEEEEE Yale University RR WW W WE RR WWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEE