[pandorabots-general] Globa

[William Starin]

Globa is derived with prior written permission from Loglan (Logical Language) that was invented by Dr. James Cooke Brown beginning in 1955. Loglan was intended to test the Whorf hypothesis that language limits thought. According to Whorf, the natural languages have defects that limit their use in expressing certain ideas. Some natural languages are stronger in one area, weaker in others, but all natural languages limit thought. Dr. Brown decided to test Whorf's premise by constructing a language without limits as far as was possible. Loglan was the result. Look at http://www.loglan.org/   Loglan has a predicate structure based on Symbolic Logic. I went through the Loglan dictionary and determined that there were less than 430 predicate patterns in Loglan. I assigned a two or three letter suffix to each pattern. Loglan like French and Chinese has a basic vocabulary of 1000 words called primitive ideas which combine to form more complex ideas. Some of the Loglan primitives have three letter abbreviations. I reduced all of the primitives to three letter roots. Then I said that each three letter root can be tagged with any of the 430 case tag suffixes. That meant an instant vocabulary of almost half a million words(in theory). Putting two or more roots together(i.e. steam clean) plus a suffix can easily generate a vocabulary bigger than those contained in English or German. I took it to the Loglan Institute. (Loglan has a vocabulary of less than 10,000 words.)  We can't change Loglan this late in the development they said so the Institute gave me written permission to develop Globa.  I developed Globa to be used as the language of the Leadic Government. I am now engaged in a butt kicking contest that I intend to win with a certain  entity which is promoting English as the international language. A Goggle search will not work. Here are the web addresses: http://users.inna.net/~lupso/leadic1.htm  click on by William Starin to get to my web page http://users.inna.net/~lupso/index.htm  Click on Language to get to the Globa language page http://users.inna.net/~lupso/globalenna.htm 
 Gus the Globa speaking robot is a long way from fluent in Globa, but he is enthusiastic.






Dear William Starin:

I tried speaking to your bot, Gus, today. His page says that he speaks Globa.
It seemed something like Esperanto. I did a Google search for Globa with no
success. Is Globa a language you've designed? A language designed for sci-fi
computer games? Or something used by linguists?

Cheers,
Websafe
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