Message-Id: <199709091647.LAA16206@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: mark.vines@wholefoods.com Date: Tue Sep 9 11:47:28 1997 Sender: Lojban list From: Mark Vines Subject: lo cukta pe la lojban. To: LOJBAN@CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 1286 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Sep 9 11:47:28 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU coi doi lojbab. I will certainly buy (at least) one copy of _The Complete Lojban Language_. I plan to make my purchase in advance of publication, so that I can qualify for the "substantially discounted" advance price. I intend to pay in cash. co'o mi'e markl ============================================================ coi doi runbau selci'i IMO Lojban has the potential to rejuvenate the artificial language movement. Lojban is a highly capable expressive medium, produced by a collaborative design effort, based on predicate logic, cultural neutrality & the elimination of syntactic ambiguity. As such, Lojban is presently without peer. If the field of linguistic engineering has a future, _The Complete Lojban Language_ by John Woldemar Cowan is surely destined to become a classic. No library on constructed languages can be complete - or even adequate - without it. No conlang user, designer or advocate can afford to ignore it. Every learner & user of Lojban should own a copy for reading & reference. Those who want Lojban to survive & prosper should purchase this book. Those interested in the design & description of novel human languages other than Lojban should also purchase this book, as the _de facto_ standard of excellence in the field. co'o mi'e markl