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I remember reading as far as 23.0. I would download a version, print it out and read it on my 1.5 hour subway ride to work, making my notes in the margins. I've done this twice. The newest version look... neater, based on the table of contents. There are good linguistics books, but of course none of them targets conlanging as a goal. There are nice websites and some interesting conlangs, but they are often exploring ideas and comparing notes with a lack of focus. The culture is a bit like people on research grants. The exploration itself is the goal, not the finished functional language. The monograph is focused on producing a finished thing, the interlingua. It wrestles concrete linguistic problems with solutions that are found in natural languages, and it strives to be easily parsed by a machine translator. The lessons are for learning the conlang, which won't do much for me. The theory and method of the monograph are brilliant and now there's a forum to compare notes on it. I am.. jazzed. FaqSphinx --- In Latejami@yahoogroups.com, MorphemeAddict@... wrote: > > In a message dated 3/16/2006 8:30:45 AM Central Standard Time, > FaqSphinx@... writes: > > > > I've read the main body of the monograph twice, but I have yet to do > > the lessons. > > > > What constitutes the "main body" of the monograph? > > stevo >