On first sight Toki Pona is not a logical language (explicit, unambiguous, complete etc.). It's Taoist roots - highly intuitive, extremely ambiguous - make Toki Pona unfit for computer processing. No computer program or PhD thesis will ever be written in it. Toki Pona was created with the exact opposite purpose in mind. It wants cut the verbal foliage that clouds our minds. It aims to succinctly express the core of the human condition. In other words: Toki Pona is the ideal medium for "dark teenage poetry".

However, Toki Pona was constructed according to the Taoist guideline "less is more". It has only 118 words, most of which are semantic primitives, the grammar is simple. This makes Toki Pona a doable language for computer processing (only 118 words + simple grammar).

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