The creators of Lojban have put into their language everything which we know to matter for human communication; if the language fails, natural languages may have other crucial properties that we have not yet noticed. “If people can speak logically transparent languages, why don’t they?” It’s a good question, and Lojban hasn’t answered it yet, with its small user numbers and their difficulty speaking the language fluently. If the strong Whorfian proposition were true, and speaking Lojban made you think more logically, it should have spread considerably since 1960. Who wouldn’t want to think
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