Re:Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)
by IshKebab on Friday October 29, 2021 @06:25PM
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I don't see why the small vocabulary would help learn it, if more complex concepts are built from that small vocabulary.
English only has 26 letters! It must be really easy!!
And they're fooling themselves if they think being able to express lots of concepts with only 123 words means it's easy to communicate by only learning 123 things.
No. There are still a gazillion concepts. If you want to communicate "car" to someone you still have to learn that "space for movement" means car... Or is it a bus? Ok "car" is "small-moveable-space-on-four-wheels". Hmm, bit verbose. We'll just add one more word...
English only has 26 letters! It must be really easy!!
And they're fooling themselves if they think being able to express lots of concepts with only 123 words means it's easy to communicate by only learning 123 things.
No. There are still a gazillion concepts. If you want to communicate "car" to someone you still have to learn that "space for movement" means car... Or is it a bus? Ok "car" is "small-moveable-space-on-four-wheels". Hmm, bit verbose. We'll just add one more word...