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Anthony McCarthy
Sun May 4 11:55:21 49558,
I assume that anyone who is reading this should assume since you have not
mentioned which one you actually can speak that the answer is you don't speak
any of them .
Let me guess, you can speak English and maybe a little, tiny bit of a second
language but you couldn't actually live in what you know of it. Typical.
Conlang Critic
Sun May 4 11:55:23 49558,
sina sona ike! mi ken toki kepeken toki pona. taso, ona li toki lili. jan ale
li ken kama sona toki kepeken ona kepeken tenpo lili! tenpo pini la mi toki ala
e ona tan ni. ni li ale.
Anthony McCarthy
Sun May 4 11:55:24 49558,
toki pono or whatever it is? Give me a break. Show me the bibliography.
Show me the speaking language community, show me the technical literature
written or translated into it, show me the literature from many countries
translated into it. I wonder, since its inspiration is supposed to be Taoism
if they've translated any of the literature of Taoism into it.
Anthony McCarthy
Sun May 4 11:55:26 49558,
toki pona is a game that is a little above pig-Latin and way below Ido. About
its only virtue is that it lacks the nationalistic hegemony of Basic English.
I'd love to see someone try to translate a 4th grade level chapter book into
it. Or try to. Why don't you wow us by translating The Little Engine That
Could or .... no. An even better demonstration. How about you translate
Gerda Malaperis into it.
Mike S.
Sun May 4 11:55:28 49558,
Ouch.
Flaming Obsidian
Sun May 4 12:06:23 49558,
I can translate the entirety of Moby Dick, if you want to challenge me. Also,
Toki Pona has a whole community, unlike slowly dying Ido.
Anthony McCarthy
Sun May 4 12:06:25 49558,
I'm not an idist, I'm an Esperantist, a language which has the largest
"conglang" community in history. I bet you couldn't translate Moby Dick into
toki pona and have anyone who hadn't read the original tell you what was going
on in most of it. I'll bet your translation would be controversial. The
language is radically vague except when talking about the simplest things. It
wasn't designed to talk about complicated things, its inventor said as much.
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