> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Sai Emrys
> (Cf. George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language")
>
> I recently had cause to reread Orwell's essay, and of course
the
> engelanger in me perks up and asks:
>
> Could a language be structured in such a way that,
systemically, it
> acts against the sort of obfuscatory language as in that essay
(and as
> in vast amounts of modern politics, journalism, academia,
etc.)?
>
> Have any of you added features like this?
>
> Any ideas on how it *could* be done, or whether this is an
inherent
> potential flaw no matter what the language?
I've been workig a lot on my loglang lately. Theoretically, any
type of "logical" language should force a more accurate way of
saying things. In practice, that has yet to be proven or
disproven. The loglang may start ut in a very clean and clear
state, but I'm not sure it's possible to stop people from
dragging some of their idiomatic baggage into it eventually.