"OCD" refers to the medical condition known as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and its symptoms, and also anyone who gets annoyed by messiness or who double checks stuff. If you ever claim it only refers to that first thing, you are being prescriptivist, but also based.
a lot of hobbyist internet linguists still need to realize that "having opinions about how language should be used" and even "attempting to enforce those opinions" is not evil, you just can't conflate it with how language is used in reality. stop using the word "prescriptivism" like that.
Usually I'm with you that learning an entire language is something you do for practical reasons. toki pona is an exception for me because it took so much less investment to pick up, but it also got me into studying real languages and led to me minoring in Linguistics.
conlang learning communities tend to be focused on linguistics and the structure of language itself more than natural language learning communities, which usually focus on the culture surrounding their language. it's a different crowd.
ken sona a! toki pona sina li pona
"the most reasonable position is always a compromise between the two extremes" does not hold up in the real world, but occasionally it is correct. for example:
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nimi "majuna" li nimi ku lili, taso ona li nimi su kin. jan Osu pi wawa nasa li kepeken nimi ni. kepeken lipu su la, jan Sonja li ken suli e nimi sin.
mi wile sona e ni: lipu su kama li kepeken ala kepeken nimi sin pi ku suli ala? nimi "majuna" li nimi su pi wan taso anu seme?
jan Usawi li pali e kalama musi sin la mi kute a. kalama ni li musi mute! pona tawa sina, jan Usawi o!
Japanese phrases "One must/needs to/has to" with a negative conditional. "I have to sleep" is「寝なくてはいけません」(ne-naku-te=wa ik-e-mas-en) (sleep-NEG-CVB=TOP go-POT-FORMAL-NEG), "Not sleeping, (I) can't go on" or "(If I) don't sleep, (I) can't go on." Or some variation thereof.
re: wile, I once argued with a friend that a need is a want to avoid a consequence (I need to sleep -> If I don't sleep, I'll be too tired to function). They argued even that distinction's fuzzy, hence people abusing "I need" (I need the Switch 2 -> If I don't get it, I can't play the games).
"mi wile la nasin li pali" is expressing a want that a road (or way/method, if used more abstractly) will pali, or make/create something. if you're hoping it will revitalize an area or lead to economic or cultural growth by enabling travel there, the making of that change could be "nasin li pali".
but on the other hand, yeah, I sure hope it does. mi wile kin la.
road work should be "pali nasin" with pali first, since it's a type of work, not a type of road.
the second sentence is dubious anyway, since pali is work in the sense of "make, construct, accomplish something", not "function properly, serve a purpose".
the pun doesn't really work in toki pona.
Al poses with Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony
Just bumped into an old friend.
pona o tawa kama sona sina a! good luck with your learning!
Basically I don't think it's going to lose any momentum from here on out, activity is fairly steady, and partially tied to the already stable toki pona communities on Discord and elsewhere.
Thank you for your interest in the language! pona tawa sina!
I think the spike was due to jan Sonja joining Bluesky and the toki pona feed being created in rapid succession, with possible boosts from holiday break giving folks more time to spend on social media, and people creating new Bluesky accounts. Now the activity has leveled out at a sustainable rate.
(toki pona mi tawa ilo DeepSeek li ike. mi sitelen e nimi ni kepeken tenpo lili, kepeken wawa sona lili. toki pona pi ilo DeepSeek li jo e pakala, taso mute pakala li lili.)
mi wile sona e ni: ilo DeepSeek (ilo pi ma Sonko sama ChatGPT) li ken ala ken toki pona? mi pana e alasa sona tawa ilo DeepSeek.
ilo ni li ken toki pona a! kin la, ilo ni li toki Inli ala pi ma Tawan. taso, ona li toki pona pi ma Tawan. sina toki pona la, len pi toki ala li pakala!
jan Usawi li pali e fuckin bop mute a
ah, divisions? to mirror the first one about connections
"o moku e kala pona" li kama tan ni. jan li toki pona tawa jan Sonja lon kama wan pi kulupu suli (大会). jan li toki e ni: tenpo kama la, ona li moku e kala Susi. ona li toki e ni kin: "jan Sonja o sitelen e nimi lon lipu pu mi!" jan Sonja li sitelen e nimi ona e nimi "o moku e kala pona"
kalama musi pi jan Usawi li suli lon kulupu pi toki pona pi toki Inli, li kepeken nimi omekalike (o moku e kala ike), li kalama musi pona.
youtu.be/AVqKaVc9U1c?...
mi kepeken "o moku e kala pona". mi sona e jan mute pi toki pona la ona li kepeken nimi ni.
If you want to give attention to other people's writing (posts), put new writing (comments) below that writing using toki pona. Your toki pona can improve other people's posts, and offer new information and thoughts.
sina wile pana e lukin mute tawa sitelen pi jan ante la, o sitelen sin lon anpa pi sitelen ni kepeken toki pona. toki pona sina li ken pona e sitelen pi jan ante, li ken pana e sona sin e pilin sin.
inshallah we will put apples in crust with sugar and cinnamon baked till warm and oozing, serve with vanilla ice cream. call that Apple Pie Allah Mode
I hope more Jews wake up to the fact that the ADL is functionally a PR department for Israeli Zionism. They will always suck up to whoever furthers Israel's national expansion, no matter how clearly antisemitic they are.
poki toki TOK li kama tawa lipu pi sewi laso. pona a!
or if you want to keep the agency of "you" attempting:
ijo li ken la,
sina awen alasa pali e ijo ni lon tempo ale la,
ijo ni li kama.
I dunno how this would scan without the context of the English translation.