In the land of invented languages
Subtitle: Esperanto rock stars, Klingon poets, Loglan lovers, and the mad dreamers who tried to build a perfect language
By: Arika Okrent.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; tlh
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780385527880
Subjects: Languages, Artificial
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.