[Foundation-l] Fwd: Tokipona-Wikipedia

[Mark Williamson]

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 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2008/1/18, Ian A Holton <poeloq at 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 "international auxiliary languages" (IALs) and no matter how outdated one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.
>
> --Arbeo
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