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mcphage on April 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word L...

> Why would it be bad?

Because agglutinative languages have much more sophisticated systems and morphemes for expressing complicated ideas. This reads more like Mark Twain's satire about German (https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html).

khedoros1 on April 26, 2017 [–]

Those languages also have more than 123 words. Sophistication implies complexity, and Toki Pona was designed to be simple, even to a fault.

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