I'm obsessing over Lojban

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For a long time I've wanted an artificial language that was deliberately unambiguous. At times I even felt the urge to try to create it myself, but other obsessions also demand their time.
Then I, entirely by chance, found out about Lojban. An international vocabulary, no exceptions, no irregularities, no ambiguity, no homophones, no polysemy, no possibility for puns. It's everything I want in a language. Even allophones bother me in natural languages, and Lojban makes every reasonable effort to minimize them.
What do you think of Lojban?

Never heard of it before. Just now Wikied it.

Sounds like an interesting experiment.

It will probably go the way of most invented languages (Esperanto, Interlingua, etc) and never die out, but never really take hold and get traction either.

It does differ from the other invented languages in that it tries to double as a computer language and a spoken language. Interesting way of researching how the two kinds of language interact and differ.