What you get in Toki Pona is a series of lexicalized phrases from word compounds. In a natural language, you would get these along with the borrowings or coina

What you get in Toki Pona is a series of lexicalized phrases from word compounds. In a natural language, you would get these along with the borrowings or coinages, to a greater or lesser extent based on the culture's attitude toward lexical borrowing. Toki Pona has a strong cultural bias against borrowing, and probably (perhaps somewhat like Pirahã) a strong cultural bias against discussing complex, abstract concepts precisely.