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<a href="http://www.doxophiliac.com/2009/06/ill-admit-it-i-think-klingon-is-cool.html">
I'll admit it. I think Klingon is cool.</a> </b></h3>Monday, June 1,
2009<br>
Cate Morrison, The Doxophiliac Blog<br><br>
Interesting reaction to Okrent's <i>In the Land of Invented
Languages</i>. <br><br>
On this particular bullet point:<br><br>
"The goals for Esperanto sound a lot like those Peter Galison
describes as linking Vienna Circle logical positivism and Bauhaus
aesthetics, though Esperanto is older. Inventor L. L. Zamenhof sought to
create a universal second language to foster peace. I link all three
because each saw difference as the cause of violence between peoples and
sought to erase the markers of that difference. The VC sought to overcome
subjectivity by creating a logical structure of thought and expression
which could be more resistant to miscommunication or misunderstanding.
The Bauhaus movement stripped ornamentation from their creation and
elevated the functional as the source of beauty without
provincial/historical markers. The object is made transparent to the
viewer--it is truthful."<br><br>
Not the best of analogies. But since we are on the topic of the Vienna
Circle, it is apropros to note that Carnap was an enthusiastic
Esperantist, but he viewed Esperanto as a tool for social communication
totally differently from his project of logical syntax, i.e. an
artificial logical language or formalism. And I have the web pages to
prove it:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/carnap1.html">Carnap on
Wittgenstein & Esperanto / Carnap pri Wittgenstein &
Esperanto</a> <br><br>
<a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/carnap2.html">
"Lingvoplanado" (Language Planning) de Rudolf Carnap</a>
(9/9/2004) <br><br>
( For part of
original English text, see
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5037/carnap.html">Rudolf
Carnap on IALs</a>.) <br><br>
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