Re:Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)
by GoblinSlayer on Friday October 29, 2021 @10:35AM
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You can learn 100 words from any natural language.
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Re:Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)
by asoneth on Friday October 29, 2021 @07:37PM
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True, but there will be very few documents you can read or conversations you can participate in with only a few hundred words in a natural language.
The steep learning curve of most natural languages means it takes months before I can read or say anything nontrivial.