Discussion pertaining to the intrigue, benefits, drawbacks of the constructed language toki pona.
Created in 2001 to promote positivity, it uses just 120 words (137 including common community additions) and has heavy extension in meaning.
"tomo" means building, house, domestic; "moku" means both food and to drink; "jan" means human, person, personify...etc. Any word can function as a noun, verb, adjective, or preposition depending how it is used in a sentence.
The language has thousands of users and recently attained as ISO 639-3 code from the SIL organization.
Happy to discuss any questions about usage, history, intentionality, etc, or to debate its usefulness and practicality.
Any requests on how to translate slurs will be ignored.
Liam Roberts
stop shilling your retard language
William Sullivan
Words are there to be tuned manipulated, i constipulate a condesned stash of a inherited hash of what, would, and what cannot be there. Any word i will find it like a sheep, and my care is deep but they will all walk over the same meadow. And only the cats say meow.
Kayden Lopez
This is literally 1984 a thought control language
Andrew Cooper
Is this a translation request?
Jason Stewart
Wow, sounds evil as fuck. Imagine the future with a bunch of raceless, genderless, brown people walking around Frank Ghery cities speaking their globohomo baby language.
I'd rather learn a dying language with an actual culture behind it like Occitan than study this sheep language.
Isaac Smith
Learning any language is better than spending your time arguing on the internet, good thread. I think the best future for it's use is as a universal pidgin, it excels at that. Would also be good for HAM radio.
Aaron Brooks
Well I certainly think calling toki pona "evil" is a bit hyperbolic, but learning endangered languages is great (when done with care, and not haphazardly, of course). And even small, niche language like this one can co-exist in a world in which linguistic diversity is celebrated.
Anglish is somewhat intriguing, but I cannot escape the feeling that it exists mostly due to frustration over the battle of Hastings. But please enlighten me if I am mistaken.
William Lopez
WTF is this? GTFOH here with your childish, faggot nonsense. Imagine trying to describe anything in any depth with your retarded, 120 word monkey language, you fucking imbecile...
Pretty sure English will be the dominant common language going forward but thanks anyway Jan
William Evans
>a world in which linguistic diversity is celebrated sounds awful
Jason Clark
Not gonna lie it is wicked awesome. A language with zero ambiguity! Alas, with 68 grammatical cases alone, I doubt I'll have the time to learn it.
David Jenkins
English is the world language in the 21st century, but toki pona isn't trying to replace it. It's a minimalist language, one spoken for fun and for looking at the world in a different way. And yeah, it isn't for everyone.
Leo Bailey
go back to discord jan
Adrian Sanchez
Their insistence on promoting this absurd little game of language here is so freaking annoying. Try to order a meal in toki pona. Or describe how to fix a car engine. If you can’t manage that, it isnt a language, its a toy
Adam Wilson
>120 words so what would be a poem using toki pona? How would one express concepts such as wonderlust, providence, abstraction? I just wrote 28 words in two sentences - 23% of the language.
Cameron Richardson
I didn't hear about anyone that learnt to speak Ithkuil fluently
Christian Roberts
There is a lot of poetry in toki pona! Wander lust could be "wile pi tawa mute." Providence could be "wile/pali pi jan sewi." Abstraction could be "nasin pi lon ala." The cool thing is that there's seldom just one "right way" to say something. You think of what it means to you, and then translate its constituent parts. You break the concept down, and reverse engineer it.
