Re: Rick Morneau's Katanda?

John Cowan <jcowan@...> comuni:

> > Do you realize _Lexical Semantics_ is nearly 95,000 words long?  It's an
> > amazing magnum opus -- arguably the most impressive one-man achievement
in
> > modern conlanging.
>
> I think that as magna opera go, James Cooke Brown's _Loglan 1_[1] takes
> first place: it is 224,000 words long, and almost as much of a one-man
> show as _Lexical Semantics_.  Of course, some (but not so many)
> of the ideas of Loglan come from other people, whereas Rick's ideas
> are almost entirely his own.
>
> In addition, the parts of _The Complete Lojban Language_[2] that were
> written by me amount to 140,000 words (with 60,000 words by other
> contributors).  Lojban is of course the product of many hands, far
> more so than Loglan.
It was specifically with *your* work in mind, John, :-) that I qualified my
statement by saying "one-man achievement".  For those of you on the list who
haven't purchased it, you'll find _The Complete Lojban Language_ to be a
fascinating, entertaining work:

http://www.lojban.org/files/brochures/cll.html

Even if you don't plan on learning the language, it will give you plenty of
ideas for your own languages, naturalistic, engineered or auxiliary.

I wasn't aware that James Cooke Brown had developed Loglan in that much
detail.  My impression was that Loglan was constantly changing and that was
why Lojban split off.  Did Lojban start out as a relexification?  How does
it compare now to Loglan from a grammatical standpoint?  I'm aware that
Lojban has a much larger and more active community.

Best regards,

Jeffrey
http://jeffrey.henning.com
http://www.langmaker.com

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