'We maintained conversation for 4 1/2 hours,' boasts LeChevalier, president of The Logical Language Group Inc., the organization that is trying to complete the unfinished language, polish it, promote it and offer classes in it. All talk had to stick to a newly constructed tongue known as Lojban (pronounced LOZH bahn), currently being developed as a culturally neutral, unambiguous and totally logical parlance. 'It was an all-Lojban party,' says Bob LeChevalier. In fact, it is safe to say there had never been one remotely like it. But the LeChevaliers weren't hosting a typical dinner party this night. Last Sunday evening, as Bob and Nora LeChevalier prepared for dinner guests at their Fairfax home, they worried: Would party conversation diminish to small talk? Or, worse, would their guests find nothing at all to say to each other? Common concerns for all hosts, of course.
