In the land of invented languages : Esperanto rock stars, Klingon poets, Loglan lovers, and the mad dreamers who tried to build a perfect language
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In the land of invented languages : Esperanto rock stars, Klingon poets, Loglan lovers, and the mad dreamers who tried to build a perfect language
Spiegel & Grau, c2009
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-329) and index
Summary: Okrent tells the fascinating and highly entertaining history of man's enduring quest to build a better language. Peopled with charming eccentrics and exasperating megalomaniacs, the land of invented languages is a place where you can recite the Lord's Prayer in John Wilkins's Philosophical Language, say your wedding vows in Loglan, and read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in Lojban--not to mention Babm, Blissymbolics, and the nearly nine hundred other invented languages featured in this language-lover's book
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Contents of Works
- Nine hundred languages, nine hundred years
- John Wilkins and the language of truth
- Ludwik Zambof and the language of peace
- Charles Bliss and the language of symbols
- James Cooke Brown and the language of logic
- The Klingons, the Conlangers, and the art of language
