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utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!vax135!cornell!dean
Wed Mar 24 22:53:07 1982
Re: Loglan
Loglan is a language developed by James Cooke Brown to test the Sapir-Whorf
hypothesis that the structure of language determines the boundaries of
human thought. There was an article about the language in 1960 in an
issue of Scientific American. In 1975, the third edition of the description
of Loglan was published. A copy is sitting in my lap as I type this. For
more information, you might try
The LOGLAN Institute
P.O. Box 1785
Palm Springs, CA 92262
They were alive and well in 1976 when I obtained copies of the various
Loglan books from them.
The language is really very interesting, and worth knowing something about.
However, it never seems to have had a great impact on any particular
community. It would be fun to find a group of people willing to learn
and speak it (thus testing the hypothesis, perhaps). On the subject of
the Heinlein book, my copy of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress shows an
initial copyright date of 1965, so I suspect he had seen the Sci. Am.
article, and took it from there.
Dean Krafft (decvax!cornell!dean, dean.cornell@udel)
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