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But to intentionally, significantly expand toki pona's vocab is a radical departure from the original design goals. I'm not implying that we should give tp a 1000 word vocabulary. On the contrary, I think we should keep the official vocabulary small- just add a few well chosen words here and there ...

Are you agreeing with me? I can't tell.

I agree that stereotypes can be used to manipulate how masses think, and I agree the media can be used to create and destroy stereotypes, and so those who control the media will be able to exercise an extra degree of control over a culture by controlling which stereotypes they believe in and respond...

jan musi pi len noka wrote:The "Reformed Egyption" of Mormonism was almost a conlang

jan musi pi len noka wrote:,Smith probably intended to create a language and rapidly found out it was more work than necessary.

Better still, if the plates had actually existed then he really could have translated them.

This one I'm for, but the unofficial words? I hope you only mean proper names for places and people. No I'm actually in favor of slowing expanding the vocabulary to enable us to talk about things that we want to talk about but don't have the words for. It is the nature of constructed languages that...

Three tier world?

What is garden pathing?

How would you design an experiment to determine whether the hypothesis is valid or not? I know a lot of people believe in the idea of languages controlling what you can think, but if it were true I would think it would have been tested by now.

Enlightening video. I find it interesting that aUI was able to assemble such few symbols into so coherent vocabularies. Has anyone really looked into it? It shocked me to hear that they imported words from Latin while still maintaining their philosophical composition. No, the vocabulary isn't provid...

It's worked well for religion though-- sanskrit, latin and arabic seem to be surviving on a prestige factor that people tend to fight about. Hebrew too. And arguably Egyptian hieroglyphics. I guess religion really IS a good way to promote your language, although it must be an easier sell if it is/w...