Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Toki Pona is fun. A language with only 137 words, learnable from scratch within weeks. Though it's interesting to see just how ambiguous everything becomes with this ultra-small vocabulary.
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j3
@j3
A society with this language would probably intellectually, or at least conceptually limited, without loan words...
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
The way that you do this sort of thing well is, the culture establishes conventions about which combinations of words have much more specific meanings. Chinese does this, eg. everyone knows 大学 ("da xue" = "big learning") means "university" and not eg. "hardcover textbook" or "great student".
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