>>6283829First off, we should consider "why do we want to make bantese?". It can't be to facilitate clearer communication between people from different countries, because as you said we already all know English. Personally I think it should be the exact opposite - to create a layer of obscurity between those who are in on it and those who are not.
In my opinion basing it off English would ble completely useless, because it would just be "English plus a bunch of weird words" which is basically what writing on this board is already like. Your average normoid doesn't understand concepts like "dubs", "OP", "namefag", "2hu", meme names like Kot or Gondola, or the weird loan words like "kraut" or "desu", without getting every single one of those terms explained to them. It's already weird enough, we're just used to it.
It's better to make something truly unique and obscure. But maybe toki pona isn't the best way to start this project, because people would rather just jump straight to making up new funny words without actually learning the already existing toki pona words and guidelines.
