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Peopled with charming eccentrics and exasperating megalomaniacs, the land of invented languages is a place where you can recite the lords prayer in john wilkinss philosophical language, say your wedding vows in loglan, and read alices adventures in wonderland in lojbannot to. Linguist arika okrent writes from an engineering perspective, language is kind of a disaster. Each conlanger in the book is given a biography thats necessarily brief maybe this book only feels short because i enjoyed it so much but full invdnted motivation, context, and the delicious savor of research. Pdf, epubs, mobi, emagazines, epaper, ejournal and more. Download the search for the perfect language ebook free in pdf and epub format. In 1908 the tiny neutral state of moresnet, the orphan of a border dispute between the netherlands and prussia, rose up to declare itself the first free esperanto state of amikejo friendship place.
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