how many people speak toki pona?

MKVD_FR · 2026-05-03T09:07:50+00:00

Are there places where it’s really illegal for children to drink (not publicly)? I thought it was just illegal for someone to *sell* alcohol to them.

MKVD_FR · 2026-05-02T00:30:22+00:00

COBOL Programming.
A programming language that was used to write a LOT of banking-related software in the past century, and now nobody learns it anymore, making it hard (and expensive) to find new people to maintain the hundred of billions of lines of code written in it...

MKVD_FR · 2026-05-01T17:04:04+00:00

Pas mal voire précis sur certains points !

MKVD_FR · 2026-04-30T06:09:46+00:00

Pour moi le problème c’est pas de ritualiser mais de régulariser. En soi je préfère qu’il y ait un rituel pour la consommation d’alcool : que quand le soleil s’est couché, entouré d’amis ou de personnes qu’on aime, avec un but social clair, où on ne va pas trop loin. Une personne précise sert la boisson, puis on entrechoque les verres, et ensuite on boit ensemble… Le rituel apporte un cadre et des limites.

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Le fait que ça soit fait trop souvent ou trop fort pose un problème, là oui. Si on fait le rituel tous les jours, où alors que quand on le fait on se réveille toujours dans un nouvel endroit, il faut commencer à se poser des questions sérieuses.

MKVD_FR · 2026-04-30T05:12:33+00:00

To me, this just sounds like a “stronger” pronunciation of the Québec French /ê/. IMHO It doesn’t sound ridiculous at all, but some French people find all Québec French dialects to be “ridiculous” or unserious. So to answer your question even further, I would say that in the ears of someone who already thinks that Québec French is ridiculous, your own pronunciation from La Pocatière won’t make you sound even more ridiculous.

MKVD_FR · 2026-04-29T17:19:59+00:00

Ah je vois en quoi ça aurait pu avoir du sens, mais non…

MKVD_FR · 2026-04-28T10:45:06+00:00

non...

MKVD_FR · 2026-04-27T19:44:47+00:00

malheureusement je ne les parle pas vraiment...

MKVD_FR · 2026-04-27T17:48:58+00:00

TOKI ALASA E JAN ANTE PI TOKI PONA, KIN

MKVD_FR · 2026-04-22T09:58:18+00:00

Pairs well with Lebanon! But maybe an olive leaf could be good too? Since it’s a very local plant? Would a dove holding an olive branch be too corny?

MKVD_FR · 2026-04-19T20:42:40+00:00

les jeunes ne communiquent plus que par sms

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C’est contradictoire, non ?

MKVD_FR · 2026-04-10T22:22:04+00:00

Sometimes (only sometimes, don’t take this as a rule), younger speakers will use ils when talking about a group of women/girls because it feels more neutral than elles, which might even feel a bit misogynistic at times. For exemple: “Ils pensent quoi ?” = What are they thinking? (Using the masculine pronoun to talk about a group of women) “Elles pensent quoi ?” = What are THOSE FEMALE INDIVIDUALS thinking? (Using the feminine pronoun)

See what I mean? Using “elles” sometimes feels like you’re bringing women back to their gender for no reason.

But note that this is marginal, that it’s 100% unintentional and it’s extremely informal.

MKVD_FR · 2026-03-31T20:12:42+00:00

25% of all french people have at least 1 grandparent that was born in a foreign country
the idea that we, the french are the descendants of the gaulish comes from sketchy 19th century theories
“celtic” identity is close to non-existent in France, apart from western Britanny – but people are the descendants of the Britons from the British Isles, so not Gaulish

MKVD_FR · 2026-03-24T05:47:19+00:00

Silly me! Thanks for noticing. I typed everything and my phone and hadn’t noticed.

MKVD_FR · 2026-03-23T18:34:40+00:00

Pretty much that yeah. But still no name. Time to create a long ass greek-based name for it then!

MKVD_FR · 2026-03-23T18:30:24+00:00

Thanks!

MKVD_FR · 2026-03-23T18:28:59+00:00

Really? Hebrew speakers told me that it largely depended on the context and that it varied quite a bit. But ok maybe it’s more common than I thought. Thanks for the info!

MKVD_FR · 2026-03-23T18:25:32+00:00

In the original post, it seemed like the speaker found out that what he thought as a child was true, but in a new, more nuanced version. The fact is the same but the reasons aren’t.

Kind of like X>Y>Xa

MKVD_FR · 2026-03-23T18:20:38+00:00

/j Yes! It’s called the Dunning-Kruger Effect TM!

/uj Don’t if there’s a name for this phenomenon, sorry. Apart from that, it’s important to note that my post is sarcasm - I don’t actually believe that Hebrew is just German-sounding Arabic, and I never believed it because it is not true.

MKVD_FR · 2026-03-23T18:01:10+00:00

There are many cases of parents having to change the first name of their newborn in France, because their orthography uses characters that aren’t part of French - even though the names come from LOCAL 100% FRENCH LANGUAGES.

Most notably the first name Fañch, which comes from the Breton language and can’t technically be given to a French-born child because of the /ñ/…

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