From cowan@ccil.org Sat Jun 03 12:12:37 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8643 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2000 19:12:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 3 Jun 2000 19:12:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta3 with SMTP; 3 Jun 2000 19:12:36 -0000 Received: (from cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA05179; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 15:38:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200006031938.PAA05179@locke.ccil.org> Subject: Re: [lojban] Why constructed languages? To: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de (=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._T=FCting?=) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 100 15:38:39 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@egroups.com In-Reply-To: <8hb2a2+jqji@eGroups.com> from "=?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._T=FCting?=" at Jun 3, 0 01:47:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan =?iso-8859-1?q?Alfred_W._T=FCting?= scripsit: > I'd be interested in hearing your opinions. E.g., was Lojban/Loglan > inventor's idea similar to Zamenhof's? (Z.'s 'Esperanto' was the > *Hope* getting people(s) united in freedom, peace and 'understanding'. No, although some Loglanists/Lojbanists have had that idea. The *original* purpose of Loglan was purely for experimental linguistics: teach people this language and see how (if at all) it changed their way of thinking. But of course the original purpose need not be the only purpose. We now have many other purposes: international communication, intellectual game, computer-human communication, computer-assisted translation, ... -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org Yes, I know the message date is bogus. I can't help it. --me, on far too many occasions