Re: building from primitives (was Re: Langauge Constets)

In a message dated 11/29/2007 9:58:24 AM Central Standard Time,
joerg_rhiemeier@WEB.DE writes:


> > One mis-conception of Toki Pona that is often spread and repeated for
> > some reason is that it has only 118 words.  It only has 118 roots plus
> > a lexicon of compounds.  Look at Sonjas page -- both are given there,
> > the lexicon being quite small yet, but the idea is quite clear and I
> > hear the community has more words they mostly agree on.
>
> Yes.  TP has 118 *roots*, not 118 *words*.
>
They are words, not roots.  The compounds are not words, but suggestions for
being more precise.

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