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Linguistics and semantics

2003-05-14 16:20:32.443937+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Two things on linguistics and semantics stored away for future reference, from the /. thread on the "Klingon interpreter needed in Oregon mental health facility" story: Toki Pona is a stripped down language, and a comment on Polish linguist Anna Wierzbicka's ideas of semantic primitives.

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#Comment made: 2003-05-14 20:12:01.869685+00 by: meuon [edit history]

http://www.tokipona.org/dict.php

Jan pona o, pana e kon pi pilin pona a!

Wile toki pana? Ala a!

hey friend, Laugh. Need tiki pana? No!

#Comment made: 2003-05-14 23:09:18.690516+00 by: Mars Saxman

Toki Pona and the "semantic primitives" list are, as it happens, exactly the items from that thread that I ended up bookmarking...