toki li pona
Esperanto seems like it’s for quacks, but I was quite interested in a story in today’s Globe and Mail about another “constructed” language called Toki Pona. It was created by a Canadian (a Maritimer, actually, to help fend off depression), and “is a language with 14 basic sounds — five vowels and nine consonants (j, k, l, m, n, p, s, t, w) — that combine to form a vocabulary of only 120 words.” Scrabble would be hell.
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I've actually studied Esperanto! Yes, it's flawed but it's actually quite beautiful to use. And it has a great large community in the tens of thousands range, including people all over the world who will let you stay at their house for free:
http://www.tejo.org/eo/ps_lingv_en
Quack, quack.
Saluton Polly! Kiel vi fartas?
You did tell me to be opinionated... ;)
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