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Conlang Critic Episode Twelve: Toki Pona
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 HN readers recommended it
Commenters recommend the whole series as an entertaining survey of constructed languages, and this episode when Toki Pona or Lojban comes up.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- jan Misali
- Topic
- constructed languages
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Conlang Critic is a fan of this language: [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]
anonymfus on Hacker News · 2020-06
In Toki PonaIf anyone is interested in learning about conlangs, jan Misali has an interesting playlist[0] with reviews on various contructed languages including Toki Pona. [0]: [VIDEO]
rsapkf on Hacker News · 2021-10
In Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)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] [VIDEO] [1] [LINK]
FireInsight on Hacker News · 2023-05
In Lojban: Constructed language to eliminate ambiguity from communication
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.