| > Posts like these are the 'no fun allowed' of constructed languages, and
> it pops up most often with Esperantists. Like a diplomat, you refuse to
> let people use words carelessly, or loosely. Wtf? What 'no fun allowed'?! In the community is fun allowed how and why are
you making that stuff up based on what actually? What interpretation are you constructing, which is not based on any reality? We have wordplays, puns
and local culture. People do these all the time and annoy the more grammatically
inclined people with it all the time. These conflicts inside the community
are normal any community will develop people who need to care about the language
more and people who care less about any language. That's how new concepts
are generated. > EDIT: You also left like... a wall of text explaining why Esperanto is far
> superior to Toki Pona? That isn't fun to read or talk about. If the idea is
> to replace English as a language of the world, we don't have to bring
> the stern attitude of an English teacher along with it. The wall of text tried to answer the question sincerely of how they compare.
Also it included my personal bitterness of about people who constantly piss on Esperanto for the wrong reasons. Like such as exactly this post of yours.
And that's also why I stopped writing it. I wrote that it's lacking "functionality", that makes Esperanto more complex. Toki Pona is minimalist,
it can't be the best language in the world for everything. But that does not
make it bad. People enjoy learning it and despite what you try to make
people in the Esperanto-community look like, there are a bunch of them speaking
that language too for its value of minimalism, its value in playing
around with the sapir-whorf-hypothesis regarding depression (it's after all the language of good), its value in finding a community, etc. You see something, interpret it wrongly and then piss on it, for the wrong reasons. > Toki Pona is in itself a reaction to that. It's an exploration in
> wordplay, puns, and local culture. That a niche of people who are inclined to perfectionism, down-beating and snobbishness are also inclined to favor Toki Pona is shown by your comment. |