Does it operate thru similar principles to Person Do Thing (a game wherein you have to get someone else to guess a randomly selected word by only using the 49 words on an approved list)?
Unlike Person Do Thing, Toki Pona has a nontrivial grammar. (Also, it’s not too close to English grammar, or any one natural language grammar afaik. And the words are based on a variety of natural languages rather than just taken from English.)
Otherwise, yes, trying to explain things in the two languages is a similar process.
It feels a lot like “Person Do Thing: the language”. In fact, the 49 words are close to a subset of toki pona’s. But toki pona is more expressive. Obviously there are a bunch more words, but also every word can be used as every part of speech, and the grammar disambiguates which part of speech it is. That makes it suprisingly usable. Still, toki pona sentences do feel like puzzles to me.
I’m not too familiar with that game, but it sounds like they both revolve around identifying complicated concepts using only a small set of very basic ideas.
Does it operate thru similar principles to Person Do Thing (a game wherein you have to get someone else to guess a randomly selected word by only using the 49 words on an approved list)?
Unlike Person Do Thing, Toki Pona has a nontrivial grammar. (Also, it’s not too close to English grammar, or any one natural language grammar afaik. And the words are based on a variety of natural languages rather than just taken from English.)
Otherwise, yes, trying to explain things in the two languages is a similar process.
It feels a lot like “Person Do Thing: the language”. In fact, the 49 words are close to a subset of toki pona’s. But toki pona is more expressive. Obviously there are a bunch more words, but also every word can be used as every part of speech, and the grammar disambiguates which part of speech it is. That makes it suprisingly usable. Still, toki pona sentences do feel like puzzles to me.
I’m not too familiar with that game, but it sounds like they both revolve around identifying complicated concepts using only a small set of very basic ideas.