64imma
Sat Sep 3 14:11:14 50557,
Anthony McCarthy I know you're trying to roast toki pona for it's
impracticality, but I will say that there is a natural language (pirahã), which only has 2 words for numbers. One word for a small quantity and another for large quantities. You may think that it's absurd (because we live in a society that needs larger numbers to exist), but if a language has no reason to distinguish between 1, 7, or 567,492, then of course its number system is going to be rather limited. Toki ponans Do recognize the number system as a potential flaw (such as was mentioned in the toki pona episode), but it's countered by saying that oftentimes, having specific quantities specified is not always important. That's like making the criticism that a turkey baster cannot be used to spray, when that's not its intended use. Toki pona doesn't have numbers for specific numbers, because for its purposes, it's not necessary.
