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-* Toki Pona is learned by choice, not by force. It is meant for self-control, not controlling others. It is specialized and is not an [[international auxiliary language]] (IAL), so it is not meant to displace any other language.
+* Toki Pona is learned by choice, not by force. It is meant for self-control, not controlling others. It is specialized and is not an [[international auxiliary language]] (IAL); it is not meant to displace any other language.
-* Newspeak would only be practical as the speaker's only language: through their other languages, a polyglot would know of concepts that Newspeak intends to destroy. Toki Pona is meant as a temporary reprieve from other languages. The community specifically does not support raising a child as a Toki Pona monolingual, considering this {{w|language deprivation}}, if mainly because not being able to use Toki Pona with most people would cause the child to miss the {{w|Critical period hypothesis|critical period to acquire language faculty}}.
+* Newspeak would only be practical as the speaker's only language; through their other languages, a polyglot would know concepts that Newspeak intends to destroy. Toki Pona is meant as a temporary reprieve from other languages. The community specifically '''''<u>does not</u>''''' support raising a child as a Toki Pona monolingual, considering this {{w|language deprivation}}, mainly because not being able to use Toki Pona with most people would cause the child to miss the {{w|Critical period hypothesis|critical period to acquire language faculty}}.
 * While Toki Pona is designed to reflect a certain [[Philosophy|ideology]], it is possible to speak in ways that are incongruous with it. For example, the word {{tp|[[kijetesantakalu]]}} contradicts it, yet is in widespread use. While Newspeak would work to deprecate such a word, Toki Pona [[nimi ku suli|has officially endorsed learning about it]]. Toki Pona's ideology also has no political goal and is not authoritarian.
-* Newspeak is a thought experiment with no speakers. It only has a limited description in ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' and its appendix, "The Principles of Newspeak". Without making noncanonical additions, Newspeak cannot be realized to the extent that its fictional speakers use it. You might take Orwell's word that Newspeak would have the effects described in ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', but this is unprovable speculation. Toki Pona is a full, [[Is Toki Pona a real language?|real]], [[Toki Pona: The Language of Good|well-defined]] language with a speaking community. This makes it possible to conduct actual, safe research on its effects.
+* Newspeak is a thought experiment with no known speakers. It only has a limited description in ''1984'' and its appendix, "The Principles of Newspeak". Without making noncanonical additions, Newspeak cannot be realized to the extent that its fictional speakers use it. You may take Orwell's word that Newspeak would have the effects described in ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', but this is unprovable speculation. Toki Pona is a full, [[Is Toki Pona a real language?|real]], [[Toki Pona: The Language of Good|well-defined]] language with a speaking community, so it is possible to conduct actual, safe research on its effects.
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 * It is trivial, and perfectly allowed, to construct Toki Pona phrases that contradict Ingsoc orthodoxy. {{tp|nasin pi lawa ma li ken ike.}} "A government's ways can be bad." {{tp|sona ala li wawa ala.}} "Ignorance is not strength."
 * Toki Pona encourages critical thinking <em>because</em> of its limitations. [[mi ken ala toki pona e ijo la mi sona ala e ijo|To discuss something well, you must understand it well]] and figure out an informative way to describe it. This provides new insights and makes it clear when there is an opportunity to learn more about the world.
-* By giving practice with [[circumlocution]], Toki Pona can improve your faculty with other languages, rather than erode it. This makes it easier to define terms, and to give descriptions in place of unknown or forgotten terms.
+* By giving practice with [[circumlocution]], Toki Pona can improve your faculty with other languages, rather than erode it. This makes it easier to define terms, and to give descriptions in place of unknown, forgotten terms.
 * Unlike Newspeak, Toki Pona avoids euphemism. The English "downsized for profitability" might be rendered {{tp|lawa esun li wile awen jo e mani mute li weka e jan mute}} ("The head of the business wanted to keep having a lot of money and removed a lot of people"; "mass firing for greed"). Even if you do find a way around saying what you mean directly, it may be [[Politeness|considered rude]] to obscure the true meaning.