Well, it has the history somewhat skewed and almost all the usual errors about the Whorf Hypothesis, but a decent sketch of what most people and Wikipedia think this is all about. And no, logical languages don't make ou more logical nor does the hypothesis nor JCB in his saner moments claim they would.
Sent from my iPad http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2013/12/lexicon_valley_lojban_is_an_invented_language_that_aims_to_be_supremely.html
The Whorf Hypothesis, named after early 20th-century linguist Benjamin Whorf, postulates that the language we speak affects the way we think. In other words, speakers of different languages experience slightly different realities. The only problem is there's no way to test it. Languages, after all, are closely tied to cultures, which also influence the way we perceive the world, and it's impossible to tease out one from the other. That's where James Cooke Brown comes in. He wanted to create a "logical" language and teach it to people under laboratory conditions. If it made them more logical then Whorf would be proven right! Listen to Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss Logical Language with Arika Okrent, author of In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language.
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