its more directly inspired by "pidgin" languages that evolve naturally when people do business without an initial common language. it's also a little bit like simple english / thing explainer, but not based on english (mostly).
W is a consonant, Voiced labial–velar approximant. U (Close back rounded) and A (Open front unrounded) are vowels. Combining those two vowels does not inherently produce any consonant.
I did a presentation night to my friends the other week about toki pona and one of them immediately changed their fetlife username to be in the language
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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 220d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 220d
https://mashable.com/article/internet-speak-jokes-words-kevin-malone-office
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 220d
I had to look at the date because it could have been from 10 years ago or yesterday. I had a hunch it was from 10 years ago and my hunch was wrong.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 220d
Are you more or less disappointed that it's not ten years old? I am less surprised but more disappointed that it's recent.
Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 220d
So like newspeak but not based on English?
nycki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 220d
its more directly inspired by "pidgin" languages that evolve naturally when people do business without an initial common language. it's also a little bit like simple english / thing explainer, but not based on english (mostly).
Labna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 220d
I didn't know about Toki pona, but if the purpose is to be minimalist, why there is redundancy with two character with the same pronunciation ?
Ua = W
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 220d
W is a consonant, Voiced labial–velar approximant. U (Close back rounded) and A (Open front unrounded) are vowels. Combining those two vowels does not inherently produce any consonant.
morphballganon@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 220d
Wow wikipedia really is trash with all the intrusive begging these days
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 220d
Wikipedia is getting attacked because it's one of the best things on the internet. Please don't disparage them for trying to stay alive.
morphballganon@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 220d
You can ask for donations without full-page ads.
jahtnamas@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 220d
the only one i'm not is a toki pona speaker. i don't really have the patience to learn a new language.
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 220d
You’re exactly the kind of person toki pona appeals to then.
jahtnamas@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 220d
i mean, i've looked into it, but brain too fried to give a shit.
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 220d
The secret ingredient is the spectrum. Hence the colors.
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 220d
How to impress someone in toki pona: mi pali kepeken ma tomo Aci.
::: spoiler footnote
It's a translation of: I use Arch btw
I used https://musely.ai/tools/toki-pona-translator
I have no idea if it's correct.
:::
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 220d
That presumed arch is a location
Quokka@quokk.au · 12 pts · 220d
Arch isn't a location, Arch is a destination.
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 220d
Well I tried 😁
jahtnamas@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 219d
for being the person who didn't want to learn, i did skim a few actual dictionaries for this one:
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 220d
I did a presentation night to my friends the other week about toki pona and one of them immediately changed their fetlife username to be in the language
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 220d
Oh no.
mi toki e toki pona, but there’s no overlap for Linux and toki pona and trans girls. I’m a non-furry communist, dammit!
frizzo@piefed.social · 9 pts · 220d
You are literally the only one on this site that isn't a furry, or perhaps you are just a liar lol.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 220d
Nope, I’m not a furry. I never really got into that sort of stuff. I’m just a photographer.
frizzo@piefed.social · 2 pts · 220d
Photography of furries? Your fursona is now a Japanese snow monkey camera man.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 220d
I'm not a furry, but I'm furry anyway.
That counts, right?
grue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 220d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2djHEIxPVs
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 220d
Sure there is, if you're the good kind of communist! /lh
shoki@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 220d
what does the "/lh" suffix mean?
jahtnamas@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 219d
lighthearted
eta: here's a table i found on wikipedia of tone indicator tags
nycki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 220d
I just call this "the GEB fandom"
Quokka@quokk.au · 7 pts · 220d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geb - this?
nycki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 220d
i meant this one, but thats a neat article! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
boringbisexual@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 215d
I'm not trans, but learning toki pona has been something I want to do for a while. Everything else tracks