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Re:Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120... by bobboies on Monday August 14, 2023 @08:22AM (#37120206)
Yeah folks should probably be looking at something like Latin for comparison.

Latin vs English, Italian, French, etc.

And a good thought experiment—if one spoke Latin only, how would modern concepts or words be constructed as Latin and not one of its descendants.

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Re:Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120... by kwhitefoot on Monday August 14, 2023 @12:46PM (#37123188)
The Roman Catholic church uses Latin for official definitive documents so they presumably have ways of expressing at least some modern concepts.

"Reginald Foster, a former plumber’s apprentice from Milwaukee who, in four decades as an official Latinist of the Vatican, dreamed in Latin, cursed in Latin, banked in Latin and ultimately tweeted in Latin, died on Friday at a nursing home in Milwaukee. He was LXXXI. "

https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172007/https://www.nytim...

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