What do y’all think of conlangs? Anyone here know toki pona? I personally speak it, and am wondering.
toki pona is brilliant and I wish there were more of us here. There was no active toki pona community (only ones that were inactive on other instances), so I made a new one: [email protected].
mi jan Kasikusa! ni li lon suli. mi kama tawa ma [email protected].
toki! kama pona!
mi wile e ni: jan mute li kama lon li kama sitelen e ijo lon lipu ni. tenpo ni la mi mute li jo e sitelen tu wan taso lon kulupu pi toki pona.
Not familiar with Toki Pona, though it sounds interesting after skimming the Wikipedia page.
I’m currently teaching myself Esperanto. I don’t think that just knowing esperanto is ever going to significantly benefit me, and I’ll admit that I picked it up on a lark. I like the philosophy of having a universal auxiliary language, though I doubt it will ever get to that point. Mostly I just do it because I’m enjoying the experience, and someday it may be a nice little fun fact about myself.
My previous experiences with learning a second language haven’t gone great, but Esperanto is going pretty smoothly. I’ve probably learned more in about a year and a half playing around in Duolingo than I did from 3 years of high school french class, and I’m kind of hoping I can build on the skills I’m learning here to learn another language somewhere down the line, and I think that may be the real strength of a lot of conlangs, they help you learn how to learn a language.
There’s definitely niche roles that they can play, I’m certainly no expert in this area, but I feel like a lot of the autistic community would benefit from being able to communicate in lojban, and people with learning/language/speech difficulties could probably use something like Toki Pona to sort of get the most bang for their buck with a more limited vocabulary. Of course that would require either a lot more adoption of those languages by the general population, or at least a decent network of interpreters/translators to facilitate communication with people who don’t speak those languages.
I recall finding Lidepla easy to read (a few years ago ) , like the principle of balance of roots.
I don’t know anything about this one in particular but I have some familiarity with Esperanto. I think they’re interesting academically as someone interested in languages, but I don’t see myself learning one. I just don’t see how it’s worth the time investment versus learning a language spoken natively by other humans, realistically.
I do grok this perspective, though it isn’t mine. Thanks for the answer!
