crossposted from my blog ( http://languageflow.blogspot.com/
)
Kalaba-X 50th Anniversary
"Praise strongly Kalaba-X speaker."
This year is the 50th anniversary of Kalaba-X's first appearance
in print. This delightfully strange and incredibly useful conlang
was designed by professional linguist Kenneth L. Pike
(1912-2000). In 1957 a lecture that he gave during the prior year
was published in Bibliotheca Sacra. People who are having trouble
breaking free of their native language and grasping the
underlying meanings of what they are trying to say should spend a
few hours with Kalaba-X. It is a great emancipator; it helps to
rip up the straitjacket of native language habits.
Two versions of the Kalaba-X article are online. The full-length
original, minus some of its formatting, is preserved at
archive.org ( http://tinyurl.com/yo6lqc
) (After Dr. Pike died,
the Summer Institue of Linguistics removed his writings from
their website, which strikes me as reprehensible behavior.) If
you have good pop-up blockers and spam filters in your web
browser, you might prefer the more tidy version of the article
which is at http://www.geocities.com/raredata/kalabax.html
