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Conlang Critic Episode Twelve: Toki Pona

Conlang Critic Episode Twelve: Toki Pona on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2020–2023.

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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 recommends it

Commenters recommend the whole series as an entertaining survey of constructed languages, and this episode when Toki Pona or Lojban comes up.

people recommended it
3
separate months
3
strong recommendations
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discussed on HN
2020–2023
“I highly recommend watching all episodes of their show”
— anonymfus, Jun 2020, in “Toki Pona”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

anonymfusJun 2020Strongly recommends

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]

in “Toki Pona” · View on HN

FireInsightMay 2023Recommends

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

rsapkfOct 2021Recommends

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

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