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Re: CHAT: Conlang-friendly linguists

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Friday, April 27, 2001, 17:45
John Cowan:
> dirk elzinga wrote: > > > So Manaster-Ramer and Sampson are conlang-friendly? > > Both of them (at different stages) were quite impressed by Lojban/ > Loglan: GS wrote a highly favorable review of the 1969 edition > of _Loglan 1_, with favorable comments on conlanging generally: > to the effect that if it were possible to construct a complete > equivalent for a natlang, it would serve as an excellent probe > of acquisition questions, by allowing someone to acquire it; > and that even if it turns out not to be possible to construct > a complete language, a great deal would be learned in the > process. (Can't ask for more than that.)
Where did GS review Loglan 1? As far as I can recall, Arnold Zwicky reviewed Loglan 1 in Language, and Geoffrey Sampson reviewed _The complete Lojban language_ in Journal of Linguistics. --And.

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