Has anyone even heard anything from jan Sonja lately?

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Kuti
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Re: Has anyone even heard anything from jan Sonja lately?

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Converted people have a tendency to proselytism.
What is going to happen if tokipona is less neutral ? :|
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Re: Has anyone even heard anything from jan Sonja lately?

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Not sure Daoism is neutral exactly, but certainly less given to (you should pardon the expression) evangelizing.
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Re: Has anyone even heard anything from jan Sonja lately?

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There aren't a lot of non-linguistic rules one *has* to buy into in order to use toki pona. It's more of a philosophy inspired design than a design that is a vessel for a philosophy.

Here is a sort of linguistic rule that is a vessel for a philosophy:
Peace be upon him is a phrase that practising Muslims often say after saying (or hearing) the name of one of the Prophets or Shiite Imams.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_be_u ... 28Islam%29

Another rule would be the capitalization of God(s). Or more the tu/vous distinction which has some obvious cultural background/view of the world as an social hierarchy thing going on.

The obligatory grammaticalizations of toki pona don't point to any particular philosophy-- e.g. obligatory subjects, obligatory nouns in phrases with modifiers.
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