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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