The efforts by humans to create 34the perfect language34 and to overcome the shortfalls and vices of natural human languages pr...  Read More

The efforts by humans to create 34the perfect language34 and to overcome the shortfalls and vices of natural human languages prove to be forever quixotic  Read Less

Well written a good book for people that are starting to get into conlangs

Well written a good book for people that are starting to get into conlangs  Read Less

Initially this book was fairly amusing but somewhere around the halfway mark its charms began to fade and by the end it was jus...  Read More

Initially this book was fairly amusing but somewhere around the halfway mark its charms began to fade and by the end it was just plain exhausting  Read Less

First like any successful massmarket product a successful conlang would need to be correctly positioned for a certain market

First like any successful massmarket product a successful conlang would need to be correctly positioned for a certain market  Read Less

And the chapter on lojban is worth the price alone

And the chapter on lojban is worth the price alone  Read Less

That does not imply that it is not packed with information or with plenty of things to think about

That does not imply that it is not packed with information or with plenty of things to think about  Read Less

Loglan was continued as lojban because of copyright reasons

Loglan was continued as lojban because of copyright reasons  Read Less

Loglan ends in a split with the birth of its 34illegitimate34 according to brown child language of lojban which survives tradem...  Read More

Loglan ends in a split with the birth of its 34illegitimate34 according to brown child language of lojban which survives trademark legal battles between loglans brown and lojbans bob and nora lechevalier browns exwife married bob in a lojban ceremony  Read Less

Arika okrent is a linguist but by the by she is a better journalist than most journalists as she proves by meeting the real peo...  Read More

Arika okrent is a linguist but by the by she is a better journalist than most journalists as she proves by meeting the real people behind the invented languages that linguists have traditionally ignored and reporters have usually only mocked  Read Less

Klingon is the only invented language to retain trademark status mainly because noone wants to fight the paramount lawyers

Klingon is the only invented language to retain trademark status mainly because noone wants to fight the paramount lawyers  Read Less