i mean yes but saying “Ici” doesn’t actually imply that what you’re referring to is a person
what if you named a dog Ici? how would you be able to tell me and that animal apart?
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is it silly? absolutely, but it is an interesting linguistic feature
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“context”
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bc it takes like 2 hours rather than 2 years
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ok but consider
it’s impossible to do the “Who’s On First” skit in Toki Po- wait is that a positive
wait this is actually great
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yeah! in toki pona, the dog named ici would be called mani Isi as opposed to jan Isi
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soweli Amuli
you could also use soweli, yes! i just consider dogs “large domesticated animals” so
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mi soweli Amuli!
mu
mu!
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cows out
mu is toki pona for absolutely any animal noise
in other words, it is toki pona for “nya”
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someone needs to compose an epic poem in toki pona and set it down on clay tablets
well now you’ve ruined the surprise
sadly puts away clay tablets
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you dont need to know every word of a foreign language for it to be useful when travelling though
imho if you don’t have access to translation and aren’t somewhere where basically everyone speaks some English you probably need more than 137
(of course you’ll usually have access to translation since smartphones are A Thing, and depending on where you go there might be a lot of English speakers)
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me when im desperate for social interaction
Learning toki pona took me like a day it’s extremely easy
I’ve spent equivalent time on a good handful of natural languages, actually. I just don’t, you know, speak them, because they require much more time and effort than learning toki pona does. I know as much toki pona as I do Japanese or Italian or French or what have you, it’s just that there’s not a lot of toki pona to learn, you know?
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