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Sat Sep 3 13:43:35 50557,
the most important thing toki pona achieves, imo, is learnability.
additionally, the tiny vocabulary makes it so that in order to say most things, you need to define what they are. this is admittedly less convenient than the traditional "just have a word for everything" approach, but it makes it so that you can't talk about anything in toki pona if you don't understand what it is. this might not sound like an admirable goal to many people, and I get that, but I personally think it's incredible. the only restriction on what you can say is your own understanding, rather than gaps in the vocabulary itself. (unless you wanna talk about math because that's basically impossible)
