I have one gripe with that book- though it dispels some stereotypes, it perpetuates the idea that the primary purpose of conlanging is to fix what's wrong with

I have one gripe with that book- though it dispels some stereotypes, it perpetuates the idea that the primary purpose of conlanging is to fix what's wrong with natural languages, and make better ones. For many conlangs and conlangers, that's simply not true. _In the Land of Invented Languages_ is one of the best publicizations of conlanging, but the world still lacks a good overview of conlangs simply as art or experiment. What the most important feature of language is depends on the purpose that a particular language serves. It might be better to say that logical disambiguity is not the most important feature required for human communication (although that's much longer to say). On that note, Lojban and loglangs in general have been discussed fairly extensively on the CONLANG mailing list recently; a couple of relevant messages are http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1106A&L=CONLANG&P=R8741 http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1106A&#3... and http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1105A&L=CONLANG&P=R2790 http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1105A&#3... There is some standing disagreement over whether anyone has ever really become fluent in Lojban, or if they just become fluent in a creole-Lojban that merely happens to reproduce a subset of Lojban's surface forms.