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[[File:Nineteen Eighty-Four cover Soviet 1984.jpg|200px|thumb|Book cover of a Soviet edition]]
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Hasty comparisons to
==Differences between Toki Pona and Newspeak==
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* 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}}<ref group="lower-alpha">The child would not be able to use Toki Pona with most people, and would miss the {{w|Critical period hypothesis|critical period to acquire language faculty}}.</ref>.
* 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
===Vocabulary===
* Newspeak has a continually diminishing vocabulary. Toki Pona's vocabulary has expanded since the publication of the book
* Words "that could be dispensed with" are removed from Newspeak. [[Minimalism|Toki Pona has many redundant words]], including [[antonym]]s: {{tp|ike}} ("bad") instead of {{tp|pona ala}} ("ungood"). [[:Category:Styles of Toki Pona|Styles of Toki Pona]] that experiment with removing words are generally not motivated by minimizing redundancy.
* Newspeak words have "rigid", "exact and often very subtle" [[semantic space]]s. Most Toki Pona [[content word]]s are extremely broad in meaning, covering physical and abstract concepts, and so are able to express various shades of meaning depending on [[context]]. The goal is to express as much of universal human experience as possible in a low amount of words. With enough practice and effort, you can say anything in Toki Pona.
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* 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.
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{{Fun|section}}
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'''{{tp|owe}}''' is a [[joke word]] used to satirize Orwellian and totalitarian concepts and accusations. It was coined by {{tok|nano}} in 2021.<ref name="nano2021" /> Its {{tp|[[sitelen pona]]}} glyph ({{sp|owe}}) is derived from the glyph for {{tp|[[lukin]]}} with [[emitters]] above, representing the {{w|global surveillance}} of the fictional {{w|Oceania (Nineteen Eighty-Four)|Oceanian}} government in
As a number word, it may refer to the quantity of 1984, especially when referring to the year, as in {{tp|tenpo sike nanpa owe}}.<ref>{{cite Discord|url=https://discord.com/channels/301377942062366741/340307145373253642/1191265875043557467|name={{tok|jan Sonja}}|username=sonjalang|channel={{tok|pali-musi}}|server={{tp|ma pona pi toki pona}}|access-date=2024-01-02}}</ref>
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{{Wikipedia|Nineteen Eighty-Four}}
<references>
<ref name="nano2021">{{cite Discord|url=https://discord.com/channels/301377942062366741/599425762990358528/814971646007312434|name={{tok|nano}}|username=nano?|channel={{tok|ijo-ante}}|server={{tp|ma pona pi toki pona}}|access-date=2023-12-20}}<blockquote
new word: owe
means 1984</blockquote></ref>▼
means 1984
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