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Posted: Sat 2005-12-31 14:09
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| The language of Toki Pona- the positive Newspeak? |
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I can practically guarentee you thatyou've never heard of this language, being squished off on the far, more remote side of the internet as it is. However, I would like to call into the public mind, the princibles of one language, (a 'conlang'- constructed language) named Toki Pona, developed by one linguist named Sonja Elen Kisa in 2001. Still relatively new to the internet world, it is not known among the public, but it is commonly known among those who design languages as one of the most succesful modern-day pidgins yet created. (Google's definition of a pidgin language: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&oi=defmore&defl=en&q=define:Pidgin+language )
Amusingly enough, Toki Pona (literally meaning, "the good language" or "the simple language") shares many of the same princibles of Newspeak. The creator of Toki Pona was able to shave down most of the human vocabulary into a small dictionary of 118 separate words. Surisingly, the language is astonishly easy to learn, even easier, it is said, to learn than Esperanto. While in the book 1984, a language incapable of expressing subtle meanings due to its lack of vast intricacies found in english is viewed as a negative thing, the speakers of Toki Pona view this as a positive attitude, as they feel that oki Pona is thier answer to de-jargoning the modern-day world. For example, due to limited vocabulary, much of the technical jargon and official government appropriate words dissapear, as the only way to express that word is to describe it for what it really is. For example, in Toki Pona, the word "lay-offs" can only be expressed as, "the mass firing of a large group of people.".
While Toki Pona cannot discuss the finer points of our government or our literature, or really anything as complex as working with semi-conductor chips, it can still, with 118 words, express 90% of the human lifestyle quite accurately.
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Toki Pona links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona
http://www.tokipona.org/
http://toki.dm7.net/
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