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> agglutinative ?! Do you really mean that? All languages have compound lexemes. And all languages can use description to disambiguate. The balance in toki
by sago 10y ago
> agglutinative
?!
Do you really mean that?
All languages have compound lexemes. And all languages can use description to disambiguate.
The balance in toki pona is at a dramatically different point to English, which has a relatively large functional vocabulary. But it isn't a difference in kind. And most conlangs, in my experience, rely more on compounds than English.
The "Badly" at the end seems to drop your comment from curious bafflement to prejudice. Why would it be bad?
- mcphage 10y ago> Why would it be bad? Because agglutinative languages have much more sophisticated systems and morphemes for expressing complicated ideas. This reads more like Mark Twain's satire about German (https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html).
- khedoros1 10y agoThose languages also have more than 123 words. Sophistication implies complexity, and Toki Pona was designed to be simple, even to a fault.