2020-10-05

Language Minimalism

Toki Pona encapsulates language minimalism.  There is a reduced vocabulary of about 123 basic vocables.  It is a verity that Dào espouses minimalism.  A language with multitudinous synonyms, as English, is not really optimal.  All human languages have missing words.  Tagalog has the word mutà for eye mucus, for which English really lacks a vocable.

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