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Jim Carter

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Jun 13, 1989, 1:55:42 PM6/13/89
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In article <49...@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM> do...@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Don Taylor) writes:
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>Articles about Loglan and the Loglan Institute appear in this group
>occasionally. I am trying to find a current address for them.

Loglan is a language artifact developed starting in the late 1950's by
Dr. James C. Brown. Its BNF grammar can be written out in 150-200
lines, compared to thousands for English, and is certifiably
unambiguous (by YACC) if certain morphological problems are swept under
the rug by LEX. It is aggressively agglutinative and uses a basis set
of primitive words numbering about 900. Having written about 20,000
words in Old Loglan on a wide variety of topics, I can state that it
is a very impressive and effective language. For information on Loglan
please contact

The Loglan Institute, Inc.
1701 NE 75'th Street
Gainesville, FL 32601

Due to impatience with the pace of completing Loglan, the Logical Languages
Group was formed. They have put out a revised, extended (1300 words) and
baselined vocabulary, a revised grammar and morphology (with the rug
cleaned), and extensive teaching materials including a textbook for
beginners, suitable for both groups and for self-study. In the revised
vocabulary their version of the language is called Lojban. Please
contact

The Logical Languages Group Or by E-mail, care of
2904 Beau Lane shpr...@bdmrrr.bdm.com
Fairfax, VA 22031

While the focus in Lojban was to finish Loglan, I determined to
radically simplify the grammar and morphology once again; my version is
called -gua!spi. Its distinctive features are nearly minimal
morphology and grammar; a formally specified, separate "organizational"
syntax level for interpreting cases, pronouns and so on; one-syllable
content words (lojban has two-syllable content words, less efficient);
extensive but unobtrusive defaults that make most structure words
elidable; and Chinese-style tones to control the grammar. In addition to
a short paper on -gua!spi I have finished a dictionary and "users guide",
and have nearly finished a parser and organizer program that can transform
arbitrary running -gua!spi text into Prolog-style relations ("facts"), with
pronouns, tenses and so on all hooked up to their proper referents. My
address is:

James F. Carter (213) 825-2897
UCLA-Mathnet; 6608B MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555
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