At 01:45 AM 9/20/01 +0000, michael helsem wrote:
>From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org> >Actually, Laadan was more thoroughly designed than you give it credit >for. SHE did write it up in a book, and apparently there has been a small >circle of people who got to minimal conversational ability with it. > yes; i have the book, & while it's not as thorough as a poet might wish, it does lay out enough to get started. and i have to say, it is an interesting sketch. but it hasn't received the intense usage & development that Klingon (which started at about the same point) has seen. i'm not even sure if anyone besides the inventor has written in it...
I'm not sure the inventor ever wrote in it (more than teaching examples), rather than about it. But she did publish a newsletter in which she reported on others who had used it. And she has a discussion on her web page:
http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/Laadan.html Following is one set of writings by another person: http://www.interlog.com/~kms/Laadan/examples.html lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org