[lojban-beginners] Re: On Constructed Languages

[Brandon Wirick <brandon@yrick.com>]

coi.nei,omis.

Since I was eleven years old I have developed a disdain for English.
It's such a bloated dump of random thought patterns, and yet people
seem to believe that, accompanied by good enough literary skills, it
can be the right tool for technical communication, even
internationally.

I decided that I was going to make my own language. My friends and
family looked at me with incredulity as I described a language based
on math and logic, where things made sense from the ground up, and
there was no amalgam of obsolete cultures to speak of.

Over the last ten years I had been slowly gathering my thoughts. I
started writing parts of the language, but realized that it would be a
horridly large project and began to despair. Just this February,
though, I tripped over a reference to Lojban in a Wikipedia entry and
the despair went away, praise {la jegvon.}! True, the alphabet is
still Roman and the {cmavo} are a bit arbitrary, but I never would
have been able to come up with something a tenth as practical or half
as elegant. And yeah, good luck trying to find a better logical human
language.

I used to care about Esperanto, but suddenly it has lost all
significance to me. Non-logical languages are really only good for
sounding pretty or powerful, and if they don't, where's the appeal?

mu'omi'e.uirik.

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: alien.juxtaposition@gmail.com
> To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 00:00:30 +1000
> Subject: [lojban-beginners] On Constructed Languages
> Heyaz
> Excuse me if I sound n00bish but only since my learning of Lojban have I
> taken notice of the wonderful world of contructed languages....Esperanto,
> Ido, Glosa, Novial etc........ I am frankly amazed at the amount of
> languages; it really is fascinating, although I am not what I would consider
> a 'hardcore' linguist or anything of the kind. What do you Lojbanists think
> of the other artificial languages? What made you get into Lojban, not the
> easier, more mainstream Esperanto? Do any of you speak in other constructed
> languages?
> 
> mi'e .nei,omis.