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by nmz 1325 days ago
Shallow indicates incompleteness, it lacks a whole, it does not achieve fullness. "wile pini sona" maybe? my toki pona is beyond rusty, I've forgotten all of it.

I think it should be possible but few have attempted to do so. even in programming languages, the goal is to overflow not underflow. Forth-ian languages seem to be the only ones that try to build down not up.

And doing so is difficult because it would require simplification, and simplification is difficult when you lack completeness. English itself is infinite and symbolic. A new concept was identified? lets just make up a word/symbol for it. It does not matter if it breaks structure/grammar.