{"id":119,"date":"2010-01-27T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=119"},"modified":"2010-01-27T11:02:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:02:48","slug":"lojban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/lojban\/","title":{"rendered":"Lojban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lojban.org\/tiki\/Lojban\">Lojban<\/a>? A friend of mine introduced me to it as another &#8220;competitor&#8221; of Esperanto &#8211; another logical, planned language designed to surmount language barriers. It seems as though Lojban has a more scientific feel to it than Esperanto does. Where Esperanto emerged from L.L. Zamenhof&#8217;s attempts to promote cultural awareness, Lojban was invented with scientific applications in mind, such as computing. Of course, Lojban purports to be linguistically and culturally neutral, like Esperanto [at least intends to be!], so in theory it would not be limited to scientific fields.<\/p>\n<p>If you are curious about this other constructed language, the Internet (as always!) is abound with resources. There are several free texts available to help with Lojban learning, use, and comprehension. I&#8217;ve found an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tlg.uci.edu\/~opoudjis\/lojbanbrochure\/lessons\/book1.html\">introductory text<\/a> from Lojban.org, as well as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lojban.org\/tiki\/Books\">dictionary<\/a> from the same site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Lojban? A friend of mine introduced me to it as another &#8220;competitor&#8221; of Esperanto &#8211; another logical, planned language designed to surmount language barriers. It seems as though Lojban has a more scientific feel to it than Esperanto does. Where Esperanto emerged from L.L. 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