Re: REQUEST: Engelang?

Tom wrote:
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Voksigid is another example of an engelang which claims not to be a
loglang and is clearly also not an artlang; but maybe it is an
auxlang.  Is it one of those you already considered and rejected?
 >>

Actually, yes, it is, because while it claims (right in its Langmaker
profile) that it *isn't* a loglang, it seems like it's pretty much just
trying to code formal semantics in a regular way, but which is
different from the other loglangs in exactly the same way that
formal semantics is different from logic.

Tom wrote:
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Rick Morneau's Machine Translation Interlingua is one.
 >>

Actually, it looks like a pretty good one, but I already got one,
which I failed to think of right off the bat: AllNoun.  I think this
one will be a bit more obvious to students who all know what
nouns and verbs are, but may not know what the issues behind
machine-readable text (and I wouldn't be the one to answer their
questions, I'm afraid).  I wouldn't say that MT Interlingua is a
loglang, because it's goal isn't to encode logic.  And I think when
I think of a loglang (to answer another question of yours), I
think of a language that's trying to encode logic in *some* way.
An engelang need not do so.  In that way, I think that loglangs
would be a proper subset of engelangs, but I'll accept anyone
else's opinion on the matter if they've thought about it more.

-David
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