Indeed - I think it's more along the lines of an artlang (artistic language) or a language designed as an intellectual exercise.
Mark
On 19/01/2008, Arbeo M arbeo.wiki@googlemail.com wrote:
2008/1/18, Ian A Holton poeloq@gmail.com:
Also, seeing as the language only has ~ 3 fluent speakers and a few dozen people (total probably <50) who can type it, I don't see this project taking off very much.
What would the gain be?
Ian [[User:Poeloq]]
As far as I remember another major argument against continuing the Toki Pona Wikipedia was the fact that the language's very ability of serving as a vehicle for the full range of encyclopedic content was widely doubted.
Conlangs such as Esperanto or Interlingua were designed to serve as "international auxiliary languages" (IALs) and no matter how outdated one might find the idea itself, hardly anybody doubts the IALs' capability of adequately conveying encyclopedic content. Toki Pona however is not a classic IAL. Frankly, to me it rather seems like some kind of intellectual pastime. I for one very much doubt that it matches with Wikipedia's objectives.
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