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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 / Arika Okrent.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Okrent, Arika.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Languages, Artificial.
- Esperanto.
- Klingon (Artificial language).
- Blissymbolics.
- Lojban (Artificial language).
- Loglan (Artificial language).
- Physical Description:
- 342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2009.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780385527880
- 0385527888
- OCLC:
- 321034148
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