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No. It's a cool experiment, but I would say the project as it was envisioned is mostly dead. It's well over 100 years old. However, there is still an interesti
by anonporridge 5y ago
No. It's a cool experiment, but I would say the project as it was envisioned is mostly dead. It's well over 100 years old.
However, there is still an interesting idea about teaching it to school children as a first second language, because it's so well structured and easy to pick up that kids can start actually using it very quickly. The idea is that it primes the brain to be ready for more than one language, which is the steepest part of the multilingual learning curve. There's an exponential decay to the challenge of learning the n+1 language.
But what you're telling me about Toki Pona is that it might actually be better suited for that. If a classroom full of kids could be conversant in a second language after just a few weeks or months of instruction, that would achieve this goal much more efficiently.