Re: LANG: Lojban/AL

Dan Fabulich (dfab@cinenet.net)
Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:07:00 -0800


Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:

> On a more valuable topic: Have there been any serious attempts in
> Extropian circles to learn and spread Lojban? I personally can't
> imagine anything that would have a greater positive effect on the
> minds of future generations.

<shrug> Reminds me of other artificial languages. I personally
believe that they haven't been successful precisely because they
contradict the premise of spontaneous order. For that reason, while it
might be an interesting logical exercise, I doubt the artificial
linguist's claim that one universal unambiguous language can gain
support worldwide.

-He who laughs last thinks slowest-
dAN