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Well, are we satisfied with the idea that before a certain point we are not fluent, then at some other point we are, or is it more of a spectrum? If you can use the limited amount of vocabulary you have with fluidity, are you fluent, but just not very fluent?

The closest I've ever come to being fluent in another language was learning to speed read. This is what made me wonder about fluency. To speed read, you have to abandon word reading and start letting concepts flow without actual words. You start by not saying the words with your inner voice, but som...

The dictionary definition of "Fluent" is too subjective. It says things like, "Able to use the language easily and accurately". How accurate? Easier than what? I like the idea of "thinking in another language". I might not consider myself fluent until I can think in tok...

Yeah, I was kinda going for "levels" with supa and "degree of change" with ante. Obviously needs work...

I wonder if there can be more to toki pona than a linguistic exercise. For there to be, I believe it has to be integrated into a spoken community, family and friends. But family and friends largely already speak a common language. In some cases tp may be helpful as a international language, but that...

I haven't worked this through yet, but I wonder about some way of saying for large numbers in the range of millions, "kulupu nanpa mute tu wan wan" (meaning, "a base 3 reversed positional number with 14 place columns") like we might say "a 7 digit salary" in English. na...

Yes, I think you are right. That's why I hesitated (quibbled with myself) over stating that I wasn't naming them. Did I accidentally name them by attempting to refer to them in the only way I know how to do? That would be an "organic" addition. If it were not in the context of me laying ou...

I don't know if that was really naming place columns or just talking about the groups.

A video of me counting thirteen candies (suwi), in toki pona, using base three reverse positional notation, over the course of 5 minutes. With hand signs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTFr6O ... e=youtu.be

Yeah, it's hard to wrap your head around different bases, much less reversed order of places.

But I used nanpa "mute" to denote that each number was a "multiple" of the previous one and not simply the more common (and still useable) addition of each spoken number.