loglan

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loglan - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Loglan
  
     <human language> An artificial human language designed by
     James Cooke Brown in the late 1950s.
  
     Most artificial human languages devised in the 19th and 20th
     centuries (e.g. Esperanto) were designed to be easy to learn.
     Loglan, however, is unique in that its chief design goal was
     to avoid synactic ambiguity -- the kind that arises when
     trying to parse sentences like "The blind man picked up the
     hammer and saw".
  
     Loglan is thus the only human language unambiguously parseable
     by a formal grammar (assuming you count Loglan as a human
     language; its grammar is not at all like that of any natural
     human language).
  
     Most later development on Loglan continued under the name
     "Lojban".
  
     The Loglan Institute, Inc. is a non-profit research
     corporation.
  
     Loglan is unrelated to the programming languages Loglan'82
     or Loglan-88.
  
     Halcyon Loglan (http://halcyon.com/loglan/welcome.html).
  
     E-mail: loglan@compuserve.com
  
     Telephone: +1 (619) 270 1691.
  
     Address: The Loglan Institute, Inc., 3009 Peters Way, San
     Diego, CA, 92117-4313 U.S.A.
  
     ["Scientific American", June 1960].
  
     (1999-01-14)