It&#x27;s interesting that you&#x27;re not the only person here who&#x27;s approached toki pona from a NLP perspective.<p>toki pona is about the worst case for an NLP language, I would think. It puts all the communication burden on the semantics and pragmatics of the language. It doesn&#x27;t make human expression, feelings, interests, creativity or community simpler, just the language.<p>There are other conlangs designed to be unambiguous. toki pona was designed to be the opposite: maximally general.<p>On the specific point of having to learn a compound lexicon - that is true a little, but not as much as you&#x27;d think. Sure there are conventional compounds for saying certain things, but you are very welcome (and aesthetically encouraged) to find other ways of expressing the same thing.  You might find &#x27;ilo nanpa&#x27; defined as a computer in a compound lexicon, and I use that sometimes, but my &#x27;ilo nanpa&#x27; is also my &#x27;ilo musi&#x27; and my &#x27;ilo pali&#x27; (and sometimes my &#x27;ilo pakala&#x27;). The key insight is that the language doesn&#x27;t have to describe what a thing <i>is</i>, but what it means to you. That changes, it cannot be properly documented, and is almost impossible to parse. I take that as a feature, not a bug. Part of the pleasure of toki pona is the endless poetry of it: the joy of finding curious and evocative ways of expressing yourself.