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Re:How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language... by mcphage on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:01AM (#14200343)
> Why would it be bad?

Because agglutinative languages have much more sophisticated systems and morphemes for expressing complicated ideas. This reads more like Mark Twain's satire about German (https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html).

Re:How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language... by khedoros1 on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @01:53AM (#14200761)
Those languages also have more than 123 words. Sophistication implies complexity, and Toki Pona was designed to be simple, even to a fault.