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You also could talk with only one word (unary system), but this misses the mark completely. I experimented to design a variant of Toki Pona with only two-sylla
by _nalply 3y ago
You also could talk with only one word (unary system), but this misses the mark completely.
I experimented to design a variant of Toki Pona with only two-syllable words, but then I realized that's why it's a linguist who designed Toki Pona. One of the points: the phonemes in a language are not evenly distributed, and even the combinations thereof are not. For example, /ne/ might be twice as frequent than /pa/. I as a programmer started with something like an uniform distribution, and immediately realized that it felt awkward.
It's like the secret sauce: choose the right 120 words and their pronunciation wisely!