And while the human beings were learning the tongue of Nevia, several of the amphibians and incidentally Clio Marsden were learning Triplanetarian ; the two officers knowing well that it would be much easier for the Nevians to learn the logically-built common language of the Three Planets than to master the senseless intricacies of English. Lojban's predecessor Loglan had as one of the motives for its creation a possible test for the controversial Sapir—Whorf hypothesis.