Re:Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonles...
by pona-a on Friday May 23, 2025 @04:18PM
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Can't you just say "sina toki ike suli a." (you are speaking very bad <exclamation>)? Just because it doesn't have official swearwords like most natural languages doesn't mean you can only express "positive thinking".
An example of this is toki pona, a minimalist constructed human language that is designed to only express "positive thinking". Yet it is extremely easy to insult people in toki pona: e.g. sina toki li pona pona pona pona. (you are speaking very very very very well).
To be free of a potential subtext sidechannel there can be essentially no equivalent outputs.