Re: CHAT: Conlang-friendly linguists

And Rosta wrote:


>> 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_,
> 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.
Yes, the AZ and GS reviews suffered a collision in my internal
hash tables.  What I said about the GS review is true of it,
except the book being reviewed and and the journal.

AZ should definitely be added to the list of Famous Conlang-Friendly
Linguists, though he is no longer interested in Loglan as such.

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