Re: Rick Morneau's Katanda?

Jeffrey Henning scripsit:

> 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.

But I too find _Lexical Semantics_ fascinating and amazing.

[1] http://www.loglan.org/Loglan1/index.html
[2] http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar.html

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I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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