Apyuxjj.114 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!npois!houxi!ihnss!wheps!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!pyuxjj!paulb Wed Mar 24 12:10:29 1982 Loglan Loglan is a synthetic language designed to attempt to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that the language used to think about things will alter or limit the thought. It is basically a grammar that provides a verbal form of first order predicate calculus, and has ( or attempts to have ) a grammar that is context free down to the phoneme level. This makes it quite easy to parse, and I understand that considerable work on the grammar has been done using the Yacc parser generator. There are five volumes that describe the history, development, and current state of the language, titled Loglan 1-5. There is also (or at least until recently was) an active Loglan organisation, complete with a major journal, The Loglanist, and a newsletter, Le Logla Cmata. I can dig the address of the Loglan Institute up if people are interested in joining. Interested parties can contact me. Paul Butzi pyuxjj!paulb ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.