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Pros & Cons
Pros
She dispells the stereotype of conlangers being weirdos. She chides those of us, the language curmudgeons who think that people should speak more logically. She also talks about pidgins and creoles.
But dang, what an incredibly good book. Well written, insightful and funny. This book is seriously outstanding.
ambiguity, or fuzziness of meaning, is not a 'flaw' of natural language. Language needs its 'flaws' in order to do the enormous range of things we use it for. Perhaps there is yet an opportunity for one without those negative attributes, if it's execu... Read More
Cons
Okrent's book is filled with misinformation, distortions, and gratuitous mocking. There is no historical evidence that von bingen ever intended for anyone outside the two nunneries she supervised (plus a few friends) to ever discover that lingua ignot... Read More
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Quality
The efforts by humans to create 34the perfect language34 and to overcome the shortfalls and vices of natural human languages pr... Read More
Well written a good book for people that are starting to get into conlangs
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
First like any successful massmarket product a successful conlang would need to be correctly positioned for a certain market
Price
And the chapter on lojban is worth the price alone
Packaging/appearance
That does not imply that it is not packed with information or with plenty of things to think about
Competitiveness
Loglan was continued as lojban because of copyright reasons
Loglan ends in a split with the birth of its 34illegitimate34 according to brown child language of lojban which survives tradem... 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 peo... Read More
Klingon is the only invented language to retain trademark status mainly because noone wants to fight the paramount lawyers
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There was a language based on seven phonemes do re mi fa so la and ti
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Kings at least one us president and a nobel prize winner make brief appearances in the book
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First off the author is a linguist who is doing a surveytravelogue as she explores the various constructed languages that are in circulation and spoken as well as some of the ones that didnt make it to the modern world
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Ignore the negative commentary by the party poopers
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Contains maybe 3 quotes to keep
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I would like to have seen more analysis of some computer programming languages
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The limited domain has allowed a level of success much more difficult to achieve in generalpurpose language but we could learn a lot from studying what makes languages work 34in the wild34
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This linguistics book is like no other that ive seen
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