Either do it or don’t do it. There’s no word for please or thank you. I mean, maybe if you really wanted, you could say pona, but then why would you overuse a word that’s so big and powerful?

I want to learn this language, if only because I think it would have a particular effect on how I view the entire concept of communication. What can I cut? What can I combine? Where am I wasting precious words?

Tweak a single phoneme and arrive at a strange new variation of a thought. Tweak by tweak, a speaker could wander forever through an endless landscape of unique thoughts in a kind of linguistic dérive.

Ithkuil sounds just as interesting, but rather inefficient and OVERWHELMING. The idea that the creator wanted to kill the ambiguity that fascinates him just delights me.

Thank you for sharing this article!