Acornell.2659 net.followup utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!vax135!cornell!dean Wed Mar 24 22:53:07 1982 Re: Loglan Loglan is a language developed by James Cooke Brown to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that the structure of language determines the boundaries of human thought. There was an article about the language in 1960 in an issue of Scientific American. In 1975, the third edition of the description of Loglan was published. A copy is sitting in my lap as I type this. For more information, you might try The LOGLAN Institute P.O. Box 1785 Palm Springs, CA 92262 They were alive and well in 1976 when I obtained copies of the various Loglan books from them. The language is really very interesting, and worth knowing something about. However, it never seems to have had a great impact on any particular community. It would be fun to find a group of people willing to learn and speak it (thus testing the hypothesis, perhaps). On the subject of the Heinlein book, my copy of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress shows an initial copyright date of 1965, so I suspect he had seen the Sci. Am. article, and took it from there. Dean Krafft (decvax!cornell!dean, dean.cornell@udel) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.