Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)
I&#x27;ve said it before, but the problem with having only a hundred words is that they are the <i>hardest</i> one hundred words in any languages.  To a foreign learner, easy words are hard, and hard words are easy.<p>To someone learning English as a foreign language, &quot;banish&quot; is easy to understand: it has just one meaning, so once you memorize it, you can recognize it whenever it&#x27;s used.<p>&quot;Turn out&quot;, on the other hand, has half a dozen meanings and you have to rely on context.<p>In the extreme case, imagine explaining the word &quot;the&quot; to someone whose native language doesn&#x27;t have an article.