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2018-03-10
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don't know exaclty how I got introduced to toki pona[0] -- the 'simple
anguage'. I think I can blame Alex Schroeder for it on mastodon. It
as been some time in February and since my work days have been a bit
low I decided to have a look. The idea was intriguing: Learning a
mall -- well tiny -- language[1] with ~120 words[2] and very little
rammar, no tenses.
hat should be doable even for me with the little spare time I have.
nd so I sat down and learned those 120 something words within a
ouple of days. After the first day I have been able to read texts.
etting able to express myself is a still ongoing task though.
ow the reason for this is toki pona's simplicity. Complexity needs
o be reduced greatly, often only understandable through context or
ustoms of the community. Both I am still learning.
or example coffee (or tea!) could be 'telo wawa' (strong liquid) or
telo lape ala' (liquid of no sleep).
lbeit it being really really simple it works reasonably well for
veryday conversations. Thankfully I have found some fellow toki pona
alkers on mastodon as the #tokipona chat channel seems a bit
uiet... And I dislike being part of a facebook group.
ext on my list for toki pona is getting more fluent and maybe learn
ne of the scripts. The one I like best is 'sitelen sitelen'[3] which
as a bit of a mayan style to it and it really looks beautiful.
i tawa!
__References________________________________________________________
0]: http://tokipona.org
1]: http://tokipona.net/tp/default.aspx
2]: http://tokipona.net/tp/ClassicWordList.aspx
3]: http://jonathangabel.com/archive/2012/projects_t47.html
