hange positions by means of operators. Modifiers precede modified words. Garfs school => a garfs type of school (a school FOR garfs) as opposed to a school BELONGING to garfs. Language assumptions can be quite different. For example, there are a number of words for "yes", meaning "yes, I will", "yes, I agree", etc. Although considered an experimental tool, there are people that actually speak it. (It is a USEFUL tool). Pointer: The Loglan Institute 2261 Soledad Rancho Road San Diego, California 92109 As I am an armchair linguist, you should reference the above pointer for more information. -Ken >----------------------------- -END- -DATE- Date: 8 Apr 1982 01:32:44-PST -FROM- From: ihnss!houxi!u1100a!rick at Berkeley -SUBJECT- Subject: Loglan -BODY- A while ago somebody (I believe it was in fa.human-nets during a discussion of sexism in personal pronouns) asked the question "What does Loglan do about gender?". As usual with such questions the answer is not easy to describe in a few words. But to simplify somewhat, Loglan has no concept of grammatical gender at all. The language has a series of five words that act (approximately) like third person pronouns, but there is no notion of sex associated with them. Loglan also does away with most of the usual grammatical categories, such as "nouns", "adjectives" and "verbs". In their place it has a single category called "predicate". Thus the loglan word "blanu" can be variously translated as "blue" (an adjective), "is a blue thing" (a verb-like usage), and "blue thing" (a noun-like usage). Loglan is uninflected. It has no declensions or conjugations. But it does have a flock of "little words" that serve various grammatical and punctuational purposes. They also take the place of such affixes as "-ness" (as in "blueness") in English. More information about Loglan can be gotten by writing to: The Loglan Institute, Inc. 2261 Soledad Rancho Road San Diego, CA 92109 >----------------------------- -END- -DATE- Date: Sun 15 May 83 12:17:41-PDT -FROM- From: Robert Amsler -SUBJECT- Subject: Excerpt about AI from a NYTimes interview with Stanislaw Lem -BODY- Sunday, March 20th, NYTimes Book Review Interview with Stanislaw Lem by Peter Engel Interviewer: "You mentioned robots, and certainly one of the most important themes in your writing is the equality of men and robots as thinking, sentient beings. Do you feel that artificial intelligence at this level will be achieved within the forseeable future?" Lem: "