TY  - BOOK
AU  - Okrent,Arika
TI  - In the land of invented languages: Esperanto rock stars, Klingon poets, Loglan lovers, and the mad dreamers who tried to build a perfect language 
SN  - 9780385527880
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Spiegel & Grau
KW  - Languages, Artificial
KW  - Esperanto
KW  - Klingon (Artificial language)
KW  - Blissymbolics
KW  - Lojban (Artificial language)
KW  - Loglan (Artificial language)
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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