my general philosophy of language & toki pona
I think I disagree with toki pona philosophically speaking. In my own philosophy of language I think languages should be maximalist and not minimalist.
I think human languages are an abstraction for the purposes of easier expression and I think that making the abstraction too minimalist, stripping it down to the barest of essentials strips the fun out of a very important form of human expression (constructed or otherwise).
I'll note here that this doesn't mean I dislike toki pona or think it shouldn't exist, it has every right to exist as any other language. I just disagree with the stated philosophy of the language's creator and therefore the language that they created.
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my general philosophy of language & toki pona
@packetcat i agree; i think people like it because of (1) low barrier to entry, and (2) it gets you thinking intentionally about language and word choice in a way which seems “solvable” (as opposed to natural languages where you have miscommunications arising from differences in dialect and vocabulary, and these cannot be predicted in advance)
but you know, ultimately i think dialect is a good thing, even if it does produce miscommunications sometimes, and i don’t want to be a part of a language community which is too tightly-controlled to allow for that kind of linguistic diversity
