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Subject: Re: natural language deficiencies? (Sapir-Whorf & Loglan)
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 18:54:00 EST
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> The nature of the Hopi verb/noun tense/factual distinction is interesting
> because Whorf used the non-distinction between noun and verb to
> argue that the Hopi probably see the world in a different way.

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that human thought is essentially
limited by language. In order to test this hypothesis James Cooke Brown
invented an artificial language LOGLAN. (Easiest accessible reference:
Scientific American, June 1960.) Unfortunately, as far as I know,
there arent any 'native' speakers of the language as yet. Is there
anybody out there who at least speaks it with some fluency?
-- 
      Andries Brouwer -- CWI, Amsterdam -- {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!aeb