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.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 342 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780385527880; 0385527888Subject(s): Languages, Artificial | Esperanto | Klingon (Artificial language) | Blissymbolics | Lojban (Artificial language) | Loglan (Artificial language)| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Fundamental Scientific Library | General | И II/114508 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 30 Days Loan | FL0176641 |
Includes bibliogr. references (p. [323]-329) and index.
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.
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.
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