I Think Its A Shame When People Say Toki Pona Is About Simplicity Or About Minimalism. The Ideal Of Pona

I think it’s a shame when people say toki pona is “about simplicity” or “about minimalism”. The ideal of pona on which toki pona is based revolves not around removing as much as possible, but instead around removing as much as you personally think is acceptable. Ignore everything you don’t care about and focus on what’s important to you.

kalama musi is a perfectly reasonable translation for music. But if you think that’s too abstract and doesn’t properly articulate what you think defines music, use more words! Use different words! Maybe music is an important part of your life, and it’s kalama pi nasin mi! Or maybe you think two words is already too many and music is simply kalama! Or, wait, is sound the most important part of music to you anyway? Maybe it’s not kalama musi, but musi kalama. Or is the sound completely irrelevant to your view of music, and it’s just musi?

This is also why no one can truly say how many words are in toki pona. Sure, the 137 nimi ku suli are a great list, but there are probably thousands of nimi sin created by different people with their own views on what concepts can be abstracted into simple descriptions. I’m fond of isipin myself! Of course, if you think the original 120 nimi pu are all you need—or even if that’s too many and you think we could do without some of them, that’s up to you.

Toki pona is about interpretive simplification, not objective minimalism.

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