From: Mari (mld2001@adelphia.net)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 12:56:23 GMT
http://www.loglan.org/what-is-loglan.html
From "The Status of Linguistics as a Science" (1929)
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the
world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the
mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression
in their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to
reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely
an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or
reflection: The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large
extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group. No two
languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the
same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are
distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels
attached...Even comparatively simple acts of perception are very much more
at the mercy of the social patterns called words than we might suppose...We
see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the
language habits of our community predispose certain choices of
interpretation.
In 1955, Dr. James Cooke Brown attempted to separate language and culture to
test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. He suggested the creation of a new
language-one not bound to any particular culture--to distinguish the causes
from the effects of language, culture, and thought. He called this
artificial language LOGLAN, which is short for Logical Language. According
to Riner, LOGLAN was designed as an experimental language to answer the
question: "In what ways is human thought limited and directed by the
language in which one thinks?" (1990).
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