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Conlang Critic Episode Twelve: Toki Pona

308K views · Feb 23, 2017 · 8:02 · 3 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2020–2023

An episode of jan Misali's Conlang Critic series reviewing Toki Pona, a minimalist constructed language with about a hundred words. It is a short, humorous critique of the language's design.

Why Hacker News points people here: Commenters recommend the whole series as an entertaining survey of constructed languages, and this episode when Toki Pona or Lojban comes up.

“I highly recommend watching all episodes of their show”HN comment, 2020

What Hacker News said 3

Strongly recommendsanonymfusJun 2020

“I highly recommend watching all episodes of their show”

Conlang Critic review of Toki Pona, part of a series

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Conlang Critic is a fan of this language: this video I highly recommend watching all episodes of their show if you like an idea of short text based video essays about constructed languages: link

RecommendsrsapkfOct 2021

“jan Misali has an interesting playlist[0] with reviews on various contructed languages including Toki Pona.”

Playlist reviewing constructed languages

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If anyone is interested in learning about conlangs, jan Misali has an interesting playlist[0] with reviews on various contructed languages including Toki Pona. [0]: this video

in “Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)” · view on HN
RecommendsFireInsightMay 2023

“I take all my conlang opinions from jan Misali aka Conlang Critic”

Conlang Critic favors Toki Pona over Lojban

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I take all my conlang opinions from jan Misali aka Conlang Critic and he tells me to love toki pona [0] instead of lojban [1]. [0] this video [1] link

in “Lojban: Constructed language to eliminate ambiguity from communication” · view on HN