Re: [lojban] Loglish: A Modest Proposal

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Ben Goertzel wrote:

> http://www.goertzel.org/new_research/Loglish.htm
>
> which proposes a "new" language defined as a hybridization of English and
> Lojban.
> [...] 
> Probably many people have thought of defining a language of this nature, but
> I haven't seen the idea formalized or explicitly described anywhere (if you
> know of some source that I've overlooked, please let me know).

Have you seen this? http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Anglan


> Followup thoughts are welcome...

To quote your web page:

# [...] avoid what's really annoying about Lojban (the lack of a full
# vocabulary).

I suppose that lack of vocabulary will always be a problem in knowledge 
representation systems, until someone develops AGI or a way to extract a 
suitable dictionary from a text corpus.

Also, it would be interesting to hear if you have any thoughts about how 
to create place structures with valencies higher than 1 in Loglish.

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Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
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