2 posts tagged “languidge.”

I speak English, which I believe is the most illogical language possible. spelling is arbitrary, meanings have been sometimes inverted, acronyms count as words. My observation is that English was constructed by the monkeys with typewriters. (the ones who are so famous for the Shakespearian plays.) humans found the rejected manuscripts, and used that for English.
Now I find that there is a "lojical" language. but the utterly cool part is this: Lojban was a language constructed from the ground up, on purpose, exactly what high school Latin students believe the Latin-teachers did, except this one is built to make sense!

Development of the language began in 1987 by The Logical Language Group (LLG), who intended to realize Loglan's purposes as well as further complement the language by making it more usable, and freely available (as indicated by its official full English name "Lojban: a realization of Loglan"). After a long initial period of debating and testing, the baseline was completed in 1998 with the publication of The Complete Lojban Language.

The name "Lojban" is a combination of loj and ban, which are short forms of logji (logic) and bangu (language), respectively. Due to its name, Lojban is sometimes misunderstood to be within some exclusive domains such as formal logic or computer programming; however, it is usable for daily conversation. While it is meant to be capable of handling highly logical concepts, it is also highly flexible. To whatever degree the speaker wishes, it can resemble its natural, programming, or other constructed counterparts, and it can be poetic, ambiguous, precise, or neutral.

The principal sources of its basic vocabulary were the six (at the time) most widely-spoken languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, Hindi, Russian, and Spanish, chosen to reduce the unfamiliarity or strangeness of the root words to people of diverse linguistic backgrounds. Some Lojbanists acknowledge that the language has drawn on other constructed languages' components, a notable instance of which is Láadan's set of indicators. Also Toki Pona and Esperanto have mutuality with Lojban to some extent. ~~~wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

I want to learn it. but it gets better!

Following the publication of The Complete Lojban Language, it was expected that "the documented lexicon would be baselined, and the combination of lexicon and reference grammar would be frozen for a minimum of 5 years while language usage grew". As scheduled, this period, which has officially been called the "freeze", expired in 2002. The speakers of Lojban are now free to construct new words and idioms, and decide where the language is heading.

The wikipedia project from heaven/hell! (depending on whether you're the type of person who likes editing on wikipedia) The ability to make up words! to make up concepts! The guys from The Meaning of Liff would get a kick out of this. there is, of course, one possible downside to this though.

Lojban

~~~XKCD

would you like to learn Lojban? why, why not? would you like to create your own languige? what would that languige sound like?

what is with all these strange sayings that I've been hearing lately? like, "that is/was too dumb" what do you mean, too dumb? is there this kind of dumbness limit, and after that its illegal to be any stupider? and how about"easy as baking a cake"? I can't bake a cake, can you? "that's just weird" so... that is nothing but weird? THESE THINGS MAKE NO SENSE!!! "you're freaking me out"?!?! a freak is an abnormality, so if someone is getting you out of an abnormality, isn't that a good thing? "that takes the cake" wtf? where do these things come from? did some master thief pull off a daring heist and stole a cake? and how about "its impossible to read as much as you do"? it is phisicly impossible to do what I just did. wait.... if I just did it..... ARRGH! talk sense folks, realy. It's just too easy to talk sensibly. just look at me.