keller@uicsl.UUCP (08/13/83)
#N:uicsl:8600011:000:1882 uicsl!keller Aug 12 17:09:00 1983 I finally ran across the advertisement that introduced me to LOGLAN. In Scientific American December 1975 page 119 the ad reads: We apologize to those who have waited 15 years for us to say it, but now we can say... Loglan is (finally!) ready Two books will be published this Winter: Loglan 1: A Logical Language, a grammar and general introduction; 316pp; $7.50 hardback/ $4.50 paper (remember it's 1975) Loglan 4 & 5: A Loglan-English/English-Loglan Dictionary, 16,000 English/4000 Loglan terms (4 to 1!) 532pp; $9.50 hardback/$5.50 paper. To those who haven't been waiting these 15 years: Loglan was developed to test the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis that language limits thought. It does so by pushing those limits outwards in some interesting new directions. For instance, Loglan is:- - syntactically unambiguous (you've got to say what you mean and mean what you say); - metaphysically parsimonious (its grammar makes the fewest possible assumptions about the world); - logically powerful (its grammar is symbolic logic made speakable); - culturally neutral (its word-stock has been drawn from eight natural languages); and - very easily learned (its grammar is about a tenth the size of English). Its aficionados already believe that learning Loglan "blows your mind." But research on this and other Whorfian questions has been waiting for the tools. Now we can invite you to join us in doing it. Loglan, in short, is for researchers, world language buffs, and people interested in finding out whether learning a radically different second language really does expand their minds. The Loglan Institute, Inc. P.O. Box 12458 or P.O. Box 1785 Gainesville, FL 32602 Palm Springs, CA 92262 I don't know if these addresses are still good. Shaun Keller ...pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!keller
jack@rlgvax.UUCP (Jack Waugh) (08/14/83)
Those addresses (given in the article this one references) are definitely not good anymore. The current address is: The Loglan Institute, Inc. 2261 Soledad Rancho Road San Diego, California 92109 Jack Waugh seismo!rlgvax!jack
mendelso@utcsrgv.UUCP (Eric Mendelsohn) (08/23/83)
I have heard of re-inventing the wheel -- but this is re-inventing Chinese
--eric mendelsohn