This week I became aware of toki pona, a very minimalistic, small, simple (120 words) conlang that's been around since 2001 and is apparently pretty popular (as such things go). https://tokipona.org/
@riley I've never fully committed to learning all of the sitelen pona or even toki pona so this'll help loads if you're planning to release them :catroll:
Hi folks, I want to learn #TokiPona, but I haven't been able to find pu — the first book (Toki Pona: The Language of Good, by Sonja Lang) in English anywhere except Amazon.
Weirdly, my local bookstore is able to find it in other (less helpful) languages like Esperanto, just not English. It also can order the new dictionary. Same with Bookshop.org. Why is this?
Is there a good alternative way to buy pu, that doesn't make Jeff Bezos even richer? (I know other toki pona resources exist online.)
Given I've never really succeeded in learning another language, despite years of studying Spanish, Latin, and Mandarin, easy sounds good to me!
One obvious downside to the language is that you get the opposite of jargon: as you can see, it can take a lot of words to describe a bee, and no two people will describe it the same way.
Okay okay I know this isn't grammatically correct but hear me out here. I think it would be useful to have a way to say "despite the context of X", to complement "la" which means "in the context of X"....
