<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Wow.</div><div><br></div><div>Toki Pona has two different sign languages.</div><div><br></div><div>One is a signed representation of spoken Toki Pona, like Signed English, which I learned nearly 50 years ago.</div><div><br></div><div>The other is a “natural” sign language with its own grammar, word order, and the use of space, direction, motion… like American Sign Language, which I’ve learned more recently.</div><div><br></div><div>So, if I become proficient at the “natural” version of signed Toki Pona, I’d achieve a level of nerdiness that would make Klingon speakers seem so… mainstream...</div><div><br></div><div>The hard part, of course, would be to come up with nice things to say…</div><div><br></div><div>I just hope my brain is still plastic enough to pull that off…</div><div><br></div><div>And, of course, I’d have even FEWER people to talk to using the language…</div><div><br></div><div>charghwI’^2</div><div><br></div><div>(charghwI’ squared)</div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 13, 2023, at 10:00 AM, Klingon Word of the Day via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, November 13, 2023<br><br>Klingon word: togho<br>Part of speech: noun<br>Definition: Togo<br>Source: qep'a' 30, Toki Pona: The Language of Good<br><br><br>This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh@kli.org).<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br>tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org<br>http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>