History: Anglan

Source of version: 4 (current)

A proposed reform of Lojban that keeps surfacing from different people at different times under different names.  Its core is "Why not base the gismu on just one language [[which turns out in practice to be English] so people can learn them more easily?"

The classic rebuttal is "Using English words imports the semantics of English, which doesn't match Lojban ((place structure)) semantics."

Here are some examples:
* [http://www.lojban.org/files/why-lojban/whylojb.txt] (search "Jeffrey Kegler"), 1988
* [http://www.goertzel.org/new_research/Loglish.htm] (discussed on the mailing list [http://mail.lojban.org/lists/lojban-list/msg10286.html|here]), 2005
* [http://mail.lojban.org/lists/lojban-list/msg36242.html], 2012

History: Anglan

Source of version: 4 (current)

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