This essay made me think: Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/tiki/la+lojban.+mo http://www.lojban.org/tiki/la+lojban.+mo), among constructed languages, is the catego

This essay made me think: Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/tiki/la+lojban.+mo http://www.lojban.org/tiki/la+lojban.+mo), among constructed languages, is the categorial language par excellence. Every word has a well-defined range of meaning; the grammar can be parsed by the same kinds of parsers used for programming languages; potential sources of ambiguity, like plural references, associativity of modifiers, and negation, have been rigorously (or tediously, depending on how you roll) nailed down. Can there be such a thing as a conlang that demonstrates the ideal statistical grammar and semantics? (“All the words in this list are 60% likely to be used as nouns and 40% likely to be used as verbs....” But in the absence of a pre-existing linguistic community, how could you get students of the language to use them in the right proportions?)