2018-03-16
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toki!

So since last time, I posted about toki pona[0] not a lot has
happened. Although RussSharek[1] does his best to entertain all of us
with new toki pona treasures he finds on the web. Today he has showed
me new groups on memrise for learning toki pona. And by accident I
started the sitelen pona learning course. After a couple of hours I
can now read the original toki pona writing system as created by toki
ponas inventor Sonja Lang.

I hear you. Yes, it is an artificial writing system for an invented
minimalistic language. But I am pleased to say that it's not the only
one. Besides sitelen pona[2], there's also sitelen sitelen[3] and
other peopla have made up their own[4] styles[5] and even a font[6].

I have to say that learning the sitelen pona glyphs has been a lot
easier than I have expected. I guess it does get easier if you know
the words already and now only have to match up the glyphs to the
nown vocabulary.

As a side effect I get to know the words better by themselves and
these lessons do come with audio snippets, which makes it also easier
to recognise the glyphs quicker somehow.

If you don't know toki pona yet and have a rainy weekend to spare, I
dare you to have a look at it. It's remarkably easy to learn plus you
get the real philosophical challenge afterwards. What's the right
vocab for 'clown'? How do you translate little red riding hood? Or a
favourite quote by your favourite author?

Simplicity enforces polarisation and clearness amidst all the
possible ambiguity, while retaining that ambiguity at the same time.

mi tawa!

___References________________________________________________________

[0]: http://tokipona.net/tp/default.aspx
[1]: https://mastodon.art/@RussSharek/99686159552524884
[2]: http://musilili.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/LinjaPona_Presentation-01-01.jpg
[3]: http://www.jonathangabel.com/projects/t47/index.html
[4]: http://tokipona.net/tp/Tengwar.aspx
[5]: http://musilili.net/sitelen-sitelen-remastered/
[6]: http://musilili.net/linja-pona/